Exchnage 2007 backup configuration best practice

[Satkay_Satish]

Hi All,

I'm looking for the best practice for configuring exchange backups on Netbackup 6.5.5 I've gone through GRT , but feel it to be more time consuming fo restore as the data size is huge and we don't have sufficient disk space to hold the images longer.
Please comment on the below backup approach.
Daily - Information Store Full with GRT. Stored on Disk
Weekly - Mailbox backup. Stored directly to Tape.

Thanks!
Satkay Satish

[marekkedzierski]

The question is: What is your Recovery Point Objective ? If you want to restore single elements only from last backup you can put Ex backup on disk staging and store only last backup.
Mailbox level backup on huge database is bad idea. It's very slow. You have to setup few streams. When exchange performs maintenance sometimes backup ends with errors etc.