RE: How many of you use Message Level Recovery ?

[Lefkovics, William]

Title: RE: How many of you use Message Level Recovery ?

If you really had no budget you would use the backup software that came free with your WindowsOS and does not perform Brick Level (or whatever the marketers are calling it these days) backups.   I use a P166 with 32MB RAM - my recovery server.  Cost is less than the ArcServeIT Exchange Agent.   William     -----Original Message----- From: STEVE BROOK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many of you use Message Level Recovery ? Agreed, but there are some sites where IT is still the poor relation.  For instance where Business critical software has been running for many years on AS400 or similar and the NT network is fairly new and is only for Internet/e-mail/user office files .  It can take time for people to realise the importance of that network.  This can mean little or no budget for IT.  Until last weekend, there were zero spare pc's and two spare laptops on this site.  (I now have a spare server for about three months until it is reutilised)  I would love to have a recovery server here and I will get one now that e-mail is becoming business critical. Case in point, they lose a critical e-mail.  Attitudes gained over twenty years can not be changed overnight on a site where fax machines are still in abundance and managers will write an e-mail then print it out and mail it to people in the field!!  Some sites, you have to work with what you have got, and then work on changing attitudes.  Brick Level Backup is there, it's free (in their eyes).  Another site, I could walk in tomorrow and say I need a server and they will say sure, how much do you want to spend, here is a blank cheque.    Horses for Courses   SB   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 5:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many of you use Message Level Recovery ?   But you don't need BLB's, you just need the IS and a cheap recovery server. -----Original Message----- From: STEVE BROOK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many of you use Message Level Recovery ?   "Horses for Courses" - It really does depend on your type of business environment.  On this particular customer site, some sales deals in one department can take a year to complete.  I have been asked to retrieve mails from 6 -7 months previous (The answer at the time was no as we did not do Brick Level Backup, and I was not going to restore the whole Private store for one mail & unfortunately the user had deleted the archive.pst) After getting it in the neck for that one, we are now doing BLB's P.S. What is the maximum retention time with E2K anybody know?   SB -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 4:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How many of you use Message Level Recovery ? Why the "!"? I have been using a DIR period of 35 days ever since going live with Exchange 5.5 2 years ago.  In all of that time, we have NEVER had to do a message or mailbox restore from tape.  -Michèle Immigration site:  <http://LadySun1969.tripod.com> Our new 2001 Miata:  <http://members.cardomain.com/bpituley> Tiggercam:  <http://www.tiggercam.co.uk> --------------------------------------------------------- Motivational Speaker Klingon: EVERY day is a good day to die! Say it with me! ---------------------------------------------------------   List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm