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Nene
Level 6
14 years ago

How to backup Exchange 2010 in a DAG environment

Hello guys, i'm back with my queries as usual. I'm really grateful to all those who have helped in the past. Right now i need your help again. i have a client who needs BE 2010 R2. I have bee...
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  • itsmeaffinity's avatar
    itsmeaffinity
    14 years ago

    Hi ,

     

    Nene, Yes it would be nice idea to do Full & differential backup into same folder, Only be aware that as said in above discussion you cannot do GRT backup for differential so may be for an instance if you are doing differential on weekdays & Full on Weekend this is only example & may be on tuesday one of the mailbox is corrupted & you need to restore it back so in that case you will have to configure recovery storage group & then restore last full bacup & the differential & then use exmerge after that & then get the mailbox back so the process is to big when you have to restore few email or mailbox in compare to that if you do GRT full & Incremental using policy with backupexec that will help you to do individual mailbox email restore quickly & also in your case backup are going to disk so would be good option

     

    But yes if you know about that already & if you are ready to spend time while doing individual component restore then yes you can do full & differential bacup with backupexec

    (Also one more thing when you differential backup for exchange transcation log are not set to purge by backupexec & when you do incremental transcation log are purged)

     

    Thank You

itsmeaffinity's avatar
itsmeaffinity
Level 6
14 years ago

Hi ,

 

With backupexec you can backup virtual machine in online & offline state so yes you will be able to backup exchange without any issue

 

Now to backup exchange you have 2 ways using hyperv agent you can backup the whole vhd & restore it back(If your exchange is part of guest machine on your hyperv if it is not then forget about this option)

2nd wat is you can backup exchange by installling remote agent as discussed in above points with one excange license & you will be able to do GRT backup of exchange which will be backup the whole Information store & will allow you to single email & mailbox restore for your mailbox & public folder

Doing incremental GRT backup of exchange is good option but you can only take backup of that on disk & not on tape as it is not supported so if you have good disk storage & if you afford taking backup on disk then you can configure policy & perform GRT full & incremental backup for exchange on disk

For differential you can do GRT backup so I would recommend you do full & incremental if you have good disk space or continue taking full GRT backup of exchange on tape as most simple way

 

Thank You