As I said I have never really had to, if I did I would recover the IS to my backup machine. I took an old 500 PC put one big IDE drive in it, and ghosted the drives on my exchnage box over to different partitions to the one big IDE drive. It justs sits in the corner doing nothing.
One day If I ever get the guts, I want to put in place of the server just to see if it would fuction well emough to get us through a real disaster. John Majetic -----Original Message----- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 3:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups Hmmm, well how do you recover a mailbox? -----Original Message----- From: Majetic, John RAME [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 3:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups Just backing up the IS, and not the mailboxes as well. John -----Original Message----- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups So how are you doing your backups now? -----Original Message----- From: Majetic, John RAME [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups I was doing brick level backups for quite a while. Never had a problem with them, Never really had to use them, but I had the tape space, so figured what the hell? Well about two weeks ago after doing them for three years with out a hitch, suddenly they stopped working. Couldn't back up a one of them. Just for grins, I tried to restore a mailbox from a recently fired employee, and guess what it didn't work. I have done this on a regualar basis as part of my DR planning, and never had a problem. I made no changes to the server in weeks if not months, but suddenly nothing works. Before subscribing to this list I would have been in a big panic, but now I just turned them off. I think this shows just how unreliable a BLB backup is. John Majetic -----Original Message----- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Backups Why do brick level backups = BAD? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
