We'll, with that said, there are a variety of options - none of them are
very good:
Exmerge the data out to a PST (slow and painful)
Set all clients to have mail delivery to PST rather than the mailbox - you
lose OWA access for history and a new hateful world of is that contact in
the object store or in my PST, synch'd calendar and really have a POP style
environment.
Set up OST to synch with the mailbox - probably the best of the worst
choices - be ready for synch errors and general painfulness
I'd bump this up the ladder and make it a issue for Corporate IT rather than
circumvent the functionality of a decent product.
Last option - set up your own Exchange server in house and manage the
backups yourself. What's that age old adage that if you can do something
better than the other guy, do it.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Corgiat, Rick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Looking for Advice...
>From what I understand from corporate, they were backing up nightly but the
backup/restore failed. I have no say whatsoever in what corporate does. My
servers are backed up every night and I test backup tapes at random. My
responsibilities are with the users in my division, and we all have to rely
on corporate for email...
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Looking for Advice...
I think rather than going that route you should look at your backup
procedures. Why isn't the server being backed up daily?
Steve Clark
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-----Original Message-----
From: Corgiat, Rick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Looking for Advice...
OK, first I have to say that I'm not an exchange expert. I'm not the
exchange admin for our company so I am quite the newbie here.
Here's the story:
Last week our one and only exchange server crashed and we were without email
for most of the week. All clients were setup to look at the server for
email, no local pst files. So, when the server went down, all inbox, sent
items, calendar, contacts, etc were gone. The admin at corporate, in another
state, rebuilt the server (I think) but was not able to restore every one's
mail back to pre-crash status. We were missing attachments, some email...
When my remote users dialed in to get new mail, they synced with a nearly
empty server and poof, no more old/saved mail. We were able to restore most
of our saved mail but there is a lot gone and we accept that. What I would
like to learn is how can I set up our Outlook clients so that if our email
server crashes again, we don't lose all of our saved mail and related stuff.
Most Outlook clients are Outllok 2000 with some XP sprinkled in for good
measure.
Thanks for your time,
Rick Corgiat
Systems Administrator
C&D Technologies - Dynasty Division
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