Have you looked into doing differential/incremental backups? Say,a 2-tape
backup set on the 1st of the motnh, then diffs on the other days?
Otherwise, I'd say back up your Exchange store, the DHCP, WINS, DNS
databases and the data files and be prepared for a complete reinstall
(including programs) in the event of disaster.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 6:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Server Backups
Hello All,
I am trying to find out exactly what needs to be backed up on a server
other than the Data. I have a client who has a small backup drive and
there backups are exceeding the tape size. Obviously they are being
cheap and don't want to upgrade to a bigger tape drive at the moment.
Usually I just do full backups of all servers, which included all
partitions or volumes on the servers. This particular client only has
one drive (c:) which had the OS and the data that they use. If I just
backed up the client's data it would be under the drive limit but the OS
and other folders(program files, etc) amount to almost 2GB. Other than
the repair folder, and the dhcp, wins, & dns folders under the system32
folder what other folders need to be backed up for usage in case the
server needs to be restored? The server is NT 4.0 SP6a running Exchange
5.5 SP3!
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