Hello,
I am after some suggestions on how to backup Exchange (2003) over a WAN link. (both sites are on the same domain)
I have 2 sites connected with a 1mbit link, both run individual installations of Backup Exec 11d, with the Exchange agent. In the items below I will refer to the servers as SERVER1 and SERVER2 – they are on separate sites.
I would like to backup exchange from one site to the other, and am looking for some recommendations. (All data is being backed up locally)
1, I have tried backing up a remote exchange server directly from a remote server (backing up SERVER1 from SERVER2), but the job is failing with “The network connection to the Backup Exec Remote Agent has been lost”.
2, I have also tried creating a backup to disk job on the local server (SERVER1) then copy the files from SERVER1 to SERVER2. This option appears to work, apart from the size of the backup never stops growing, even though I have specified that BackupExec should overwrite the media – creating a new IMG000XXX directory every time the job runs.
3. At the moment I am running an NTBACKUP to create a copy backup of exchange to the local server (SERVER1) and copying the file to the remote server (SERVER2). I am using this method because NTBACKUP does replace the file.
If anybody has any other suggestions please let me know.
Thanks for the help.
Graham
