>>We do a full backup of all systems every night, so extra tape costs by doing BLBs are immaterial.
>At my last job, I did full backups each night as well. extra tape costs are immaterial for you? Well, I had 8 servers
>running 10-60GB stores. Not immaterial at all.
You misunderstand - adding the contents of all the BLB mailboxes to the nightly backup still fits on one nightly tape, so I don't need to purchase extra tapes. I don't have different tapes for Exchange vs other LAN backup needs.
>>Of course. Never had a job where it was anything but, on any subject (not just recovering email).
>Well, that's fine. I prefer to spend my time going forward, not backwards. A little user education goes a long way.
It can. Obviously, you've never worked for some of the people I have .. :-)
>>If you have the space on your backup media for all users, why exclude some?
>Mostly because I consider it a waste of resources and not the best way to administer Exchange in terms of backup and
>recovery. The Exmerge idea was just an alternative.
I don't get to decide if backing up individual email is a waste of resources. Wish I could. :-)
>I concede some might want to have this backup method. I find it a waste of resources mostly. Having to backup the store
>multiple times. The size of the BLB backup is significantly greater than the store backup. I'd be running backups for
>hours for almost no gain. No thanks.
>Glad it works for you, though.
Actually, I've never had to restore a single mailbox, but I know that that was one of the main questions I was asked, when seeking to purchase a backup solution - can we restore someone's email if we had to? Not everyone's - that's a DR issue. Like any business, they wanted to be able to do both. One day I'll test it, with my "Test" email account, and see how it works.
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