Backing up EV ...

[Phil_McDougal]

Hey all,

What/how do you guys (not using Centerra) back up your EV environment?  I just moved my SQL off of my EV host and am thinking of using Netbackup scripts to shut down the EV services, then have the DBAs to schedule a mainenance dump of the DBs an hour later.  This way I get the EV file system and the DBA without issues of missing DVS files or table entries.  I understand that users can't access their mail but that's not a priority right now.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on my process or if you have better methods.

Thank you!!!
phil.

[Maynard_K]

Well, typcially it is suggested and best practices that you get a backup of SQL and Storage each day.  That way, just in case something bad were to happen, you've got a recent legitamate backup.  It's not necessary to backup your Indexes each day as these are usually easy to recover in the event of a failure, just restore and update.  For indexes, I would try to get a backup a couple times during the week.  On a side note, you may want to backup your Journal indexes every day, but mailbox archives this typically isn't necessary.