I have
been watching this thread seeing the all the "Avoid BLB....restore the IS and do
Exmerge" comments with interest.
I do
use Deleted Item Retention (10 days) and I do perform a full backup of the
stores for disaster recovery.
I also
do BLB for 3 reasons: 1. Management says I have to, 2. Some of my users
have discovered the Deleted Items Recovery feature (and deleted them there too)
and 3. It would take longer to restore the IS's
from tape than it would to just restore it directly from the BLB
tape. I would rather spent 5-10 minutes restoring an email or
folder from my nightly backups (if it exceeds the 10 day retention time) than
spending hours setting up another server, restoring the IS and doing an
Exmerge. If for some reason it can't be restored, then I tell the user "so
sad, too bad...not recoverable". I don't
consider recovering deleted emails a disaster so why should I have to
perform a disaster recovery just to get email
back?.
Just
my 2 cents worth. <Flame away - its a little cool in here
anyway! >
Jay Ploughe
Network Administrator
Kiwanis International
www.kiwanis.org
"Serving the Children of the World"
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From: Preston Jeffares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:47
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Subject: RE: backup mailboxes with Backup ExecIck... man please just avoid the BLB. You'd be better off just doing what william said and keeping around an old trash machine to do full restores to. It will give you DR practice anyway. All you do is recover the full store... the exmerge the box off to a pst and reimport back into the production box.List Charter and FAQ at:-----Original Message-----
From: Leone, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:45 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: backup mailboxes with Backup Exec>Honestly... I would tell the users about it. Some of them can try and be extra smart and then go in to the Recover Deleted
>Items box and delete their mail there too... and still complain about wanting it back. My suggestion... keep it to yourself
>and then you get to play "hero" occasionally.
I can live with that. :-)
I may keep the BE option to backup the individual mailboxes for a little while longer, anyway. Just in case. :-)
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