Backup Mailboxes and Stores okay?

[Carlton_Whitmor]

I'm running Exchange 2003 with the Exchange add-on option for BE 9.1
I'm backing up both the individual mailboxes and information stores. Do I also need to backup the contents of the \exchsrvr\mddata directory as well?

[Ken_Putnam]

If you want to be able to do a full Disaster Recovery - Yes

If you are willing to restore the OS, and then re-install Exchange, then patch it to match the current level, then no, you don't need to.


Also, be aware that if you ever do need to do a Disaster Recovery DO NOT use your Mailbox backup, Do the Stores restore only.Message was edited by:
Ken Putnam

[Carlton_Whitmor]

What a pain. That's a lot of data I was hoping to avoid backing up. So I have this correct I need to backup the individual mailboxes, information stores and physical files?
thanks,
Carlton.

[Ken_Putnam]

Mailbox backups are a bonus for selected, high profile users, as far as I am concerned. Restores are better in v9, but still not guaranteed. and they take an enormous amount of time and tape to do, compared to Stores backups

See http://mail.tekscan.com/nomailboxes.htm for a discussion of why you may not want to do mailbox backups at all. it is a little dated now, but the philosophy is still sound.

[Ajit_Kulkarni]

Hello,

You may like to refer to the following technote to know more about protecting Exchange 2003 server using Backup Exec v9.1:

How to protect Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers using the Backup Exec for Windows Servers Exchange Agent
http://support.veritas.com/docs/266074

Hope this helps you.

Regards


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