It is not all it is cracked up to be. The VSS support in BE9, build 4454 (the only one that supports it), is very unreliable. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Especially with a Win2k3 domain controller. Does not cause any damage, just does not always query the writer properly and therefore fails to backup.
I'm not sure it works with Exchange 2003 on the live database, I did not see it in the Shadow Copy items that can be backed up on our test server. It does work on a SQL database though. Best Regards, Dan Bartley -----Original Message----- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:32 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 Cool keep the info coming, if you find the PPT would you be prepared to mail it? VSS for Exchange 2003 would be a life saver. It has become such an issue here that we are looking at other mail solutions and no it is not Notes but a solution from a large database organisation ;o) Paul -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 July 2003 18:28 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 Ill have to look. I thought they were not ready yet. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:29 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 I thought the presentations at TechEd indicated BackupExec supported that? Yup - BE 9.0 gives you several choices for Advanced Open File including Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service. I'll have to dig up that ppt again. Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner & White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:25 PM Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) Conversation: High Availability Exchange 2000 Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 Being able to take snapshot backups and restores is going to be sweet. Is there anything out there that supports it yet? -----Original Message----- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:17 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 How about Exchange 2003 with Volume Shadowing on a SAN. Not seen it in practise but I thought this was one of the strong selling points of E2K3. Anyone had any experience? Paul -----Original Message----- From: Bridges, Samantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 July 2003 18:14 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: High Availability Exchange 2000 Hello All. Little Background: Last week, Exchange 5.5 server went ka-poot early in the day and I was unable to recover the IS. We ended up losing 11 hours of data that was not on a backup tape. A key member of the management team has had the stance in the past that email is "best-effort". I knew that would fly until the time that messages and calendar info was lost. I was right! Where there was no money before has come lots of money to make Exchange high availability. Amazing what a little data loss can produce...huh? Anyhoo, my task now is to find information about either SANs, Clustering, Mirroring....???? Any suggestions or comments is always appreciated by you. 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