Holly sh!t, What size of pipe do you have and how small is your db? I wish the public paid for my bandwidth :)
After our most recent tape library failed, we gave up on tapes, too costly. I now use vss and scripts to snapshot the db, and replicate only differences across street (fiber) and to one of the owners home's (vpn) but since only changes are replicated, the db's are checked for integrity and made to "appear" as fulls everyday. A zfs snapshot is taken after each backup that checks free space and drops the oldest one if need be to make space. jlc -----Original Message----- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:52 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup generations We use an online service, uploading overnight. We have two separate Exchange backups. The server(database), and a mapi backup(messages). -----Original Message----- From: Don Kuhlman <drkuhl...@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: Re: Backup generations Is everyone still using tape for these keepers or something else? My small client has their stuff in a less than clean factory environment (the office where the servers are is part of the factory but still dirty) and I can't keep tape drives working reliably. Thanks Don K ________________________________ From: lists <li...@bdtechnology.org> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 2:28:14 PM Subject: RE: Backup generations Full backups only. Keep for 30 days then keep the first day of every month for a year. Cheers. From:Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:33 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup generations I have two weeks of dailies, monthlies and a yearly as well...just for sh!ts and giggles. On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Joe Heaton <jhea...@etp.ca.gov> wrote: How many generations of your Exchange database are you guys keeping? Meaning, how far back are you keeping? A couple of days, a week, a month, 6 months? Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov
