RE: Backing up Exchange with Veritas Backup Exec 8.x

[Martin Blackstone]

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Full backups Daily. Backup the IS and DS Do Not Backup Individual Mailboxes   Implement 30 day Deleted Items Retention in Exchange. You will never need to restore again.   As for OFM, People say to stay away. I have personally seen it running in 8.5 on an Exchange server daily and it worked great, though you were essentially backing up everything twice. But I believe the rule of thumb is don't use it. -----Original Message----- From: Sethi, Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 9:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Backing up Exchange with Veritas Backup Exec 8.x Hello, For those of you that use Veritas Backup Exec to backup the Exchange server, what type of back up jobs do you run? Daily Differentials and Full every Friday. DO you backup the IS and the individual mailboxes every evening or just the IS. I think we here have been backing up the individal mailboxes every day as well since we have had numerous problems with users accidentally deleting stuff and needing it restored. Also do most of you utilize the Open File option in veritas as you may have users in email while it is being backed up? I just wanted to get an idea of what type of backup strategy is used by others. Thanks, List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm