Backing up Exchange 2003 mailboxes

[BenLa]

Is there any advantage to doing brick level backups of an Exchange 2003 server since Exchange has the ability to use Recovery Storage Groups to recover mailboxes and/or data within mailboxes?

[shweta_rege]

Hello,


Kindly refer the folowing Document:

" How to protect Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers using the VERITAS Backup Exec (tm) for Windows Servers Exchange Agent."

http://support.veritas.com/docs/266074



Thank You,

Shweta

[Keith_Langmead]

I'd say the only real benefit would be to give you multiple routes to restore the same data, so if for some reason your Exchange backup failed you'd at least have the old mailbox backup to fall back on. Obviously that's a fairly minimal benefit, while on the other hand the amount of space taken up by your exchange backups will be more than twice as much as they would be otherwise, and the time taken to do the backups will go up a lot as well.

So personally I'd say that if you have the tape capacity and available backup time window then go for it, after all there's nothing to lose.

[Rucha_Abhyankar]

Hi Bernard,

Please let us know if the earlier suggestions were helpful.


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