Thanks Diane and Brian. I do have the Exchange Agent from Backup Exec and
normally use that for online backups. But the disaster recovery whitepapers
state to have both an online and an offline backup (particularly Exchange)
so I'm going to do that this evening. So if my WINS and DHCP databases bite
the dust I can simply restore the system from tape, stop the WINS and DHCP
services and copy the databases back from tape, correct? And the idea of a
parallel install is good too. I've got a couple of test systems that I've
done that with. But this is a 36GB hardware RAID 5 critical server and I
hadn't thought of backing it up that way. As far as backing up the O.S.
through a parallel install though it probably wouldn't make any difference.
Thanks for the info!
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Webb, Brian (Telecom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Full Backup: PDC w/Exchange
If you want to get a real backup of everything you would need to do a
parallel install of NT and then backup your main install from that parallel
install. It is a pain, but the only way you can make sure that every file
is closed.
Personally, I wouldn't bother. Just do your on-line backups using an agent
or NTBACKUP.
Disclaimer: This is the current user's personal opinion and is not made on
behalf of my employer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Raymond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Full Backup: PDC w/Exchange
When doing a full online backup of our NT4.0 PDC that includes Exchange 5.5
using Backup Exec 7.3, I get a lot of open files that are in use. Some of
those are WINS and DHCP. I want to get a full offline backup including
Exchange so that I can get the WINS, DHCP and Exchange as well. Is it
okay to simply stop DHCP, WINS and all the Exchange services in order to
complete this successfully? Any other services to be aware of? No DNS on
this particular server. I've got to the get the SP6.0a hotfix rollup and
the IIS cumulative updates installed so I want to insure that everything is
backed up and cool beforehand.
Thanks for any help,
Bruce
Bruce Raymond
Systems Manager
Sentar Incorporated
4900 University Drive
Huntsville, Alabama
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