Why should you do offline backups? What's the reasoning besides just you should do them?
The only time that I would do an offline backup is if I was going to do a major upgrade that required stopping the Exchange services anyway. Other than that, doing an offline backup is silly. It causes an unnecessary interruption in uptime. As for offline defrag, I've never done one, don't ever plan on doing one. As long as you've got plenty of storage space, and are within your backup window, it's just not worth it. The only times that offline defrags are of any value are if you've made a massive amount of deletions and want to reclaim the white space (largest amount of whitespace I remember hearing about was 90gb of whitespace) or if you are close to the 16gb limit in the Standard edition and need to stall while you purchase the Enterprise edition. Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner & White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -----Original Message----- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, July 21, 2003 1:35 PM Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) Conversation: Routine Maintenance Subject: RE: Routine Maintenance You should do offline backups too though. It's just when to do them. They take a long time. -----Original Message----- From: Mellott, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:33 PM To: Exchange Discussions me Im no guru like the other people here... so I let the server do it Exchange does the defrag itself....so to me Defrag..done...check Backup... my backup goes every night -full Backup...check done (note NO BLB!!) my Exchange awhere AV checks for it's updates every 4 hours...check done... My Exch55sp4 box, NT4Sp6a+post, veritas 8.6, DLT drive, CPQ 1850R It run's run's and run's.... OK once it a great while I reboot it.... some times I look at my log's..some times I dont.... If I had my act together all the time..Id do a test DR once in a while...or so... I try not to fix it if it aint broke... now where is that hammer...... bill -----Original Message----- From: Bridges, Samantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:26 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Routine Maintenance Hello All. Just curious what kind of maintenance you all do on Exchange and what kind of schedule for maintenance is best or recommended. Is the only maintenance running an Offline Defrag once a month? Exchange 5.5 sp4 Windows 2000 Advanced Server Outlook 2000/XP clients Thanks! Samantha _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
