>I'm glad someone has got the "Brick-Level Backups =BAD" out of the way quickly ;). I suggest you also look at the disaster
>recovery papers at Microsoft which mention recovering from full backups but never from brick level backups. (Watch for line
>wraps)
What most of these fail to take into account is that brick-level backups are usually *not* done for DR recovery reasons; they're done for individual recovery reasons. In a DR recovery, you want to get back everything. The idea behind a brick-level backup is to be able to get back an individual's lost mail (usually due to either corruption or stupidity on the part of the user). What the backup operator wants is the equivalent ability to be able to restore 1 file or directory, for 1 specific user (in this case, one mailbox, or contents of a mail folder).
So that when the CEO wants her individual mail she deleted to come back from the dead, you can get back just that, rather make her wait while you do a whole restore of the IS, and then (I presume) an ExMerge of her mailbox, and a re-import into the production server.
List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
