The main reason to go with the third-party tools is that they usually offer a single-mailbox restore capability. NTBackup and the Win2K backup only backup/restore the entire Exchange Strore, so you have to restore to a different system and extract the one mailbox if that was all you needed to recover.
- Robert -----Original Message----- From: Dan Phan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Backup/Restore using Windows 2000 NTBackup Hi everyone, I am just wondering if anyone has experience in working with NTBackup that comes with Windows 2000. Does it perform online backup of the Exchange Server 5.5? NTBackup, developed by Veritas (the same people who developed Backup Exec) for Microsoft specs claims that it does "Online Microsoft Exchange Server Protection" both locally or remotely. We have Arcserve 2000 and I am hesitant to use their Exchange Backup Agent because of it is a pain to work with. Any sucessful/unsucessful stories using this tool for backup/restore Exchange Server 5.5 will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Dan 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
