It must be, Outlook didn't tell me to change it...just like Shook and his underwear. :-P
From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 11:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Back Up Best Practices flowerier = like Shook's underwear. FLOWERIER???? Is that a word? ________________________________ From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 12:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Back Up Best Practices Nah (although you might have been), I dreamed it up about a year and a half ago when I pulled the last of the tape drives off my network and suddenly the sun shone brighter and the flowers smelled flowerier. DPM has made it just that much better. (DPM is far more WAN resilient than DoubleTake has dreamed of being. TVK From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Back Up Best Practices Did you dream that up while polishing Shook's knob? :P On Jan 11, 2008 8:38 AM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which brings up what I consider the new world Backup Best Practice which would be NO tapes. I am of the opinion that true "backups" should be done to disk, "archives" should be done to tape. For years Bus and archives have really been one and the same due to technology's inability to truly differentiate them, but that isn't the case anymore. JMO YMMV, TVK -----Original Message----- From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Back Up Best Practices The more tapes you have to use to get your server back into operation, the greater the risk for something to be FUBAR and your restore being useless. Luke had the best answer, a full then differentials until the next full backup. That way you only need two tapes to ensure that you have a complete backup set. John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems FOB Orgun-E Afghanistan DSN - 318 431 8000 VoSIP - (308) 431 - 0000 Iridium - 717.633.3823 "A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes." Woodrow Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Back Up Best Practices What is the latest recommendation on back up processes? We have been small enough to do full back ups daily for some time, but now face time issues with that and need to move to a tiered option. Is F-I-I-I-I reasonable anymore or is it too risky? I do not want to be stuck with a bad full back up in an emergency. -- http://www.otbdesign.com <http://www.otbdesign.com/> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mqcarpenter ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~