Hello,
We are selling Backup Exec to all of our customers that needs backup, and it seem to have been working very well all the way back to version 9.
Even tho, we have not done many restore jobs, so we don't have much experience with that. Recently our own server crashed, a Windows SBS 2003 server, and we was unable to restore our Exchange data (we had to restore by .ost files).
I have never had much experience with Backup Exec. So I have been playing around with Backup Exec in a lab enviroment, and I have taken backups and restored.
I know how it works a little better now, but still I lack a Symantec-verified way of taking backup or restoring.
What does Symantec say about backing up Windows Server 2003 Standard (DC, SQL) and Windows Server SBS 2003 (DC, Exchange, SQL)?
What do I need to take backup of to have a full backup that can be fully restored later? (Any Windows-files that are required?)
What do I need if I want to restore to new hardware (what if the server burns up)? (is there any difference between SBS and Standard?)
What is best practises on IDR? I've heard that it fails pretty often. Is it normal to have a IDR-disc, just in case? Should I usually test this disc and actually do a fully restore before I conclude that it actually works?
Any guides, tutorials or articles are welcome.
I have already done some research on google, but never got the facts verified.