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Selwyn
11 years ago
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Exactly what needs to be backed up for total restore

I should probably know this but what exactly needs to be backed up to do a complete restore to new hardware or VM?

If I select all C:(System) D:(data) E: (logs), System State and Information Store am I not backing up the information store twice (once as Information store and once as the native files?  Do I need to do that?

 

Once I run this 'total' job, the next time it does an incremental it fails stating the last job wasn't a full backup.  I noticed the 'total' backup does the information store first, then the hard drives, so is that the reason? If so is there a way to switch so the information store gets done last?

 

Using BE2014, Agent for Apps & Databases, running on Windows 2008R2 and Exchange 2010SP1

 

Thanks in advance for any/all suggestions

 

 

 

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  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    11 years ago

    You only need to backup your Information Store once by selecting the Microsoft Information Store node.  However, you need to have two seperate job.  One to backup databases like Exchange and SQL Server databases and this job should have AOF off.  The other job would backup your files and system state and this job should have AOF on.  To ensure that you have backed up everything that is needed for a restore, make sure that for the file backup job, the SDR light is on.

    To restore to dissimiliar hardware, you need to use SDR to do the restore.  See the SDR chapter in the Admin Guide for more details.

    If the Exchange server is a VM and you are doing VM backups, make sure you do not run the VM backup between the full and incremental Exchange backup.  Otherwise, you would get the error message that you described.  You can also get this error message if you are running other backup software between the full and incremental Exchange backup.

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    pkh
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    You only need to backup your Information Store once by selecting the Microsoft Information Store node.  However, you need to have two seperate job.  One to backup databases like Exchange and SQL Server databases and this job should have AOF off.  The other job would backup your files and system state and this job should have AOF on.  To ensure that you have backed up everything that is needed for a restore, make sure that for the file backup job, the SDR light is on.

    To restore to dissimiliar hardware, you need to use SDR to do the restore.  See the SDR chapter in the Admin Guide for more details.

    If the Exchange server is a VM and you are doing VM backups, make sure you do not run the VM backup between the full and incremental Exchange backup.  Otherwise, you would get the error message that you described.  You can also get this error message if you are running other backup software between the full and incremental Exchange backup.