While most any other system is quite happy with incremental backups, Exchange is one of those that you want to do full backups on always. The reason being is that incremental do not commit and flush the transaction logs. Only a full backup will do that. In addition, you will want to familiarize yourself with this: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/administration/55/BackupRestore.a sp Unless you use a different version of Exchange in which case you will what to find the appropriate DR whitepaper. You should setup a DR server to test these processes on. By server I mean any spare PC that has enough disk space. Just to learn it.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fretz Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:27 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Backup rituals What backup rituals do you guys use on your Exchange sites? I've looked through the FAQs and read most of the relevant Microsoft Qxxx articles on Exchange administration, but I haven't found "the" way to do good backups. My first blush is to backup the entire databases + logs once a week and then backup the incremental changes to the logs daily. All suggestions, snide remarks and pithy one-liners are welcome... Thanks, Eric Eric Fretz L-3 Communications ComCept Division 2800 Discovery Blvd. Rockwall, TX 75032 tel: 972.772.7501 fax: 972.772.7510 _________________________________________________________________ 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]
