Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-06-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Patrick, on Sonntag, 30. Mai 2004 at 16:09 you wrote to amanda-users: PJL> You do not need to stop Exchange. First: Thank you for all your suggestions, I will have a close look at all these tips ASAP. PJL> The "Deleted Item Recovery" mitigates the problem somewhat. It works PJL> by hav

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Chris Lee, on Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2004 at 12:46 you wrote to amanda-users: CL> Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Hello, amanda-users, >> CL> -SNIP >> >> MS Exchange seems to only be able to dump ONE BIG FAT dumpfile, from >> which you can only recover ALL the server. >> CL> SNIP--

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-27 Thread Chris Lee
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hello, amanda-users, -SNIP MS Exchange seems to only be able to dump ONE BIG FAT dumpfile, from which you can only recover ALL the server. SNIP- This is correct up to 5.5 and I think 2k. The way the various windows backup software products get around this

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Toni Mueller
Just for the record, and please, let's discuss MTAs on other lists... On Wed, 26.05.2004 at 16:21:10 -0400, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 May 2004 12:14, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >We are talking about ~25 users here, BTW .. If you have some kind of *nix box, be s

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 13:33, lloyd wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> qmail can do that in its sleep, and scales to very large numbers >> of accounts just fine. > >...but it also can be a hassle to set up and maintain thanks to > djb's repackaging restrictions. I wasn't aware that Daniel had any s

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread lloyd
Gene Heskett wrote: qmail can do that in its sleep, and scales to very large numbers of accounts just fine. ...but it also can be a hassle to set up and maintain thanks to djb's repackaging restrictions. we used it for awhile but switched to alternatives like courier and postfix, which are in

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 12:14, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hi, Chris, > >on Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 at 17:29 you wrote to amanda-users: > >CC> Not being able to restore specific messages easily was one of > the reasons we CC> moved away from Exchange 5.5. > >CC> I was by no means an Exchange exper

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Chris, on Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 at 18:36 you wrote to amanda-users: CC> I've done the switch from MS Exchange / WinNT Domain based Network Shares to CC> Linux. CC> I'd do the Samba thing first. Both the mail and the Samba were big deals, but CC> the Samba move involved a lot less interactio

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Cameron
004 10:09 am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Hi, Toni, > > on Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 at 16:54 you wrote to amanda-users: > > TM> On Wed, 26.05.2004 at 16:34:37 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Subject: What to do with those MS Exchange Serve

Calendaring, was: Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Paul, On Wed, 26.05.2004 at 18:16:08 +0200, Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Toni Mueller wrote: > >If you really want to make use of those shared calendars or other > >groupware functionality, you'd have to use add-on or even custom > >programs for Outlook and Exchange that - in my c

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
Toni Mueller wrote: If you really want to make use of those shared calendars or other groupware functionality, you'd have to use add-on or even custom programs for Outlook and Exchange that - in my case - turned out to be non-portable across various versions of Outlook and costing _considerably_mor

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Chris, on Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 at 17:29 you wrote to amanda-users: CC> Not being able to restore specific messages easily was one of the reasons we CC> moved away from Exchange 5.5. CC> I was by no means an Exchange expert, but I agree with Toni that moving to CC> something UNIX based will

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Toni, on Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 at 16:54 you wrote to amanda-users: TM> On Wed, 26.05.2004 at 16:34:37 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Subject: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers? TM> to answer this question first: Dispose of them and upgr

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 26.05.2004 at 09:29:01 -0600, Chris Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not being able to restore specific messages easily was one of the reasons we > moved away from Exchange 5.5. proprietary, closed-source programs sometimes offer plug-ins that claim to do that. Expect to run Ve

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Cameron
Not being able to restore specific messages easily was one of the reasons we moved away from Exchange 5.5. I was by no means an Exchange expert, but I agree with Toni that moving to something UNIX based will make your life easier. Sendmail, Procmail, Courier IMAP and OpenLDAP are being used now

Re: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 26.05.2004 at 16:34:37 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers? to answer this question first: Dispose of them and upgrade to a decent Unix mail system! ...ok, just joking... > confronted with the

What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?

2004-05-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, amanda-users, until now I managed to get around these things, but today I was confronted with the question how to backup a MS Exchange Server ! Ok, I know, it's something like: - stop exchange - dump exchange to file - start exchange - dump file to tape/disk with AMANDA But there was an