You'll need two jobs with the second appending to the tape. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:02 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange 2003 backups. We are currently migrating multiple servers to 2003. I currently backup multiple 5.5 systems using one tape drive but two different batch jobs and two different tapes. We are using NT backup to backup production systems but I would like to backup 2 Exchange 2003 servers to a single tape using one job if possible. I currently have a BKS file created on the system with the tape drive that has the enclosed. C:\ C:\Documents and Settings\exchadmin\My Documents\ /Exclude C:\Documents and Settings\exchadmin\Desktop\EX2003SP1\ /Exclude JET UCMAIL6\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group\ JET UCMAIL6\Microsoft Site Replication Service\SRS Storage\ I thought that I could just use Notepad and add the second server to this BKS file to have it back up another server, but it doesn't seem to like it even though I rename back to a BKS it barfs. I guess my questions are can you edit a BKS file or is that not possible without affecting the attributes and the backup no longer recognizes it. Also can you backup two systems on a single pass or do I have to have two separate jobs running and do they have to be on separate tapes. I'm sure that you can backup another Exchange system from a tape drive located on a separate box like in 5.5? Thanks! Pete Pfefferkorn Senior Systems Engineer/Mail Administrator University of Cincinnati 51 Goodman Street Cincinnati, OH 45221 Phone - (513) 556-9076 Fax - (513) 556-2042 _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
