Exchange 2010 backup
Hello All;
So we are new to Symantec Backup Exec 2012. We are using it to back up our exchange server 2010 & I'm looking for best practices.
I've read over: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO21796 but still running into questions.
Exchange 2010:
4 different databases
- Archive
- Elevated
- Staff
- Client
Our jobs are setup nightly for FULL backups every night for each different database. BUT we are only copying the databases.
- 6PM - Full -> Archive
- 7PM - Full -> Elevated
- 8PM - Full -> Client
- 10PM - Full -> Staff
My worry is that we are not backing up drives, logs, transactions logs, etc. - We have 4 Drives and they are seperate for databses and transaction logs.
Should I be backing up the drives on an different job nightly ? Just looking for other people insight as we are new to hosting exchange.
thanks for your help.
Full server backup
If you want to fully protect your exchange server you need to select all the resources (c: system state and exchange) and because BE is smart enough to understand that you have selected databases from the exchange node it will not backup the EDB and log files twice.
Exchange part of the backup
If you backup the exchange database using the full backup method, it will backup the database (EDB) and the log files (.log) from the folders and after the backup is completed successfully it will purge the logs from the log folder