Exchange Backup Strategy
I know that probably this topic was discussed before but I was not able to find a relevan t solution on the forum.
Basically, I need some feedback on a backup strategy for our Exchange 2007 server.
Right now I use a template that performs a full backup every night but the disk space is becoming an issue and I was thinking to switch to a Full Backup once a week and then incremental or differential daily. When reading about it says that to restore from incremental backup you will need all incrmental backup since the last full backup and the full backup - so if an incremental backup fails this means that all other incremental backups after are useless?
How about differentials? It will not clear the logs and I have about 50 mailboxes. is it safe to have logs that are 1-2 GB in size?
Any advice on a backup strategy is really appreciated.
I am using BX 12 and exchange agent installed on a 2008 x 64 server
Thank you
- If you can do it to tape, I would suggest going that route. I intend using disk when we start looking at data deduplication and Exchange archiving out of BEWS 2010, but I go straight to tape.
The only thing here is that when I restore out of Exchange, I duplicate the restore to disk first, and then restore from there...