RE: Brick Level Backups

[Benjamin Zachary]

Title: Message

Yeah I saw what William was saying about single instance storage, but wasnt sure about that. Heres a good example though, 2 weeks ago some user 'lost' 12 days of data, had all mail up to like 8/2 and then nothing until 8/15. When I did a brick restore I found about 75 messages. I have no idea how that data got lost, he had items in his deleted items with the same date ranges. You guys think in that scenario Im better off doing an offline restore of a 4 gig database and redoing the entire thing from the night prior? or is the SIS, as referred, not a major problem in small-medium installs (1-5gig mdb)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Drewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 10:35 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Brick Level Backups

sure.  when you restore a mailbox from brick-level backup, you break SIS.  That takes up MORE diskspace, which makes that much more space vulnerable to corruption.

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:28 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Brick Level Backups

Just as a followup, I typically do both full backup and brick level[1], time/space permitted. I have done so many restores of corrupted mailboxes[2] in enviornments and have never had an issue[3] up to now.  I have seen some weird things in large stores like 20+gig, and being able to not take the entire thing down has been a pleasent experience[4]. I know people dont recommend it, but is there any reason why restoring a mailbox from brick would cause more corruption?

 

 

1. I use Veritas

2. I use Veritas

3. I still use Veritas

4. Do you really need to read this agian?

 

 

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