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From: Leone, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:40 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: backup mailboxes with Backup ExecFrom: Jim Holmgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>I do a full backup of the information stores every night as part of the backup jobs on my tape library.
>I have a workstation-class machine that is sitting on a shelf pre-configured with Exchange and Win2K server, just in case I>ever need to restore a mailbox.
>I also have deleted item retention turned on (very important).Where is this option?
>In the year that I've been using this method, I've had one mailbox to restore from a tape. It worked like a charm. I also
>wrote step-by-step instructions and have my "lackey" do test restores about once every 30-60 days just to be certain my
>backups are good. The pain of dealing with BLBs vs. the few hours it takes about 1-2x per year to restore a mailbox make it
>a no-brainer to me.
OK; I'll for not having to use my brain at work ... <G> ... could you share those instructions, perhaps? I presume they deal with restoring the IS to this "shelf" machine, and extracting the needed info from there?
>I would go back to using BLBs if:
>1) They didn't waste tape by being redundant with the IS backup (not likely to happen).
>2) If they were as reliable as backing up the IS. I can't recall a single instance where my BLBs did not "fail" because of>an alleged corrupt message.
I've seen a few (not many) of those.
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