>I can do a full backup to another hard drive and then another second >complete backup to a tape every night.
Or, you could do as we do, a complete backup to a drive each night, and then backup _that_ drive to tape. We've centralized a number of our server backups to a machine we affectionately call "backup" and then we backup the backup files to tape. Granted it's a two step process to restore, first restore the .bak from the tape to the machine and then the files from the .bak, but on the other hand I can restore a machine w/o having to retrieve the backup tapes. -Walden ------------ Walden H Leverich III President Tech Software (516) 627-3800 x11 (208) 692-3308 eFax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.TechSoftInc.com Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) -----Original Message----- From: Alverson, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 1:35 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Ntbackup vs. Veritas for Exch 5.5 D/R ?? Our old exchange box is running NT4 and exchange 5.5 with veritas backup exec 7.3 (and the exchange addon). I have just set up a new server with win2k server and exchange 5.5 and I am considering just using ntbackup for D/R (disaster recovery). I understand the adavantages of the Veritas backup database for file backup and recovery, but in the case of recovering an exchange server I'm not sure what extra I am getting from veritas. One thing that ntbackup will do that I have not been able to do with Veritas is backup to a file. With Ntbackup, I can do a full backup to another hard drive and then another second complete backup to a tape every night. I can still have the tapes offsite etc, but now also have a much faster restore off of another hard drive. Tom Alverson _________________________________________________________________ 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]
