I love
going through the BLB restore process [1] and getting the mailbox only to find
out the friggin' email had an embedded image that was needed as part of the
restore but it's all wailed by some digital ninja and is basically
useless. Or the email body is there but some header information is
screwy. Hmm, I wonder who that was BCC'd to?
Again,
I'm glad it works for you.
William
[1] By
the way, I only ever deployed this with InoculateIT [2]
[2]
Didn't affect me though.
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From: Ray Zorz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:29 AM
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Subject: RE: backup mailboxes with Backup ExecOutstanding. Nice to hear the other side.List Charter and FAQ at:-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Ploughe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:24 AM
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Subject: RE: backup mailboxes with Backup ExecI 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
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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
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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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