> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:03 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Best practices for backing up Exchange 5.5 > > > 1) Stop doing BLB. You know yourself that they don't work. Just use an > Exchange aware backup program (I use BackupExce) and backup > the whole thing > at one time. You will continue to have nothing but problems > no matter what > software you use to do it. > 2) Setup Deleted Item Retention. Choose how long you want to > save deleted > emails and make that the policy on recovering them. We do 30 days.
3) Follow the Ed Crowley Never Restore Method. It works better than New Math, and is easier than learning Greek. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:00 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Best practices for backing up Exchange 5.5 > > > My company prefers to backup individual mailboxes (brick > level backups) and > we're using the latest version of Backup Exec. It seems to > put a load on > the server though and occassionally gives us problems. We > aren't even able > to get a full backup every night of the whole server but just > the .EDB files > due to the mailboxes being so large. You see, we don't > enforce limits on > mailboxes however, I've tried to convince management otherwise. > > What's the best practice for backing up an Exchange 5.5 > system? What's the > best backup software? Also we have to occassionally restore > mailboxes on > the server and will get "Access denied to directory" errors > and a reboot is > the only way to fix that. I'm told this is due to no physical memory > available because the store eats it all up but from the > research I've done, > this isn't what that error is from. Any help, advice, or > suggestions would > be great. > > Karon Miller > Systems Administrator > Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
