file exclusions for MS Exchange 2013 clients
Environment: NetBackup Client v7.7.3 on Windows Server 2012 R2 with MS Exchange Server 2013 CU13 in a four node DAG with four node CAS. NetBackup Master/Media Server v7.7.3 on Appliance 5230 v2.7.3. Backup type: plain NTFS volume\folder\file style backup (we are already excluding the live mailbox database files) . Situation: I have found a folder on disk, and therefore in backups: D:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange server\V15\TransportRoles\data\Queue ...which contains a 24GB "mail.que" file and a small "tmp.edb" file and a small "trn.log" file, and a few other related files... which altogether appear to besome form of quasi live binary database/application file set... which typically one might ordinarily consider excluding from backups. There are also, otherfolders: D:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange server\V15\TransportRoles\Logs at 2.3 GB ...and... D:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange server\V15\Logging at 12.5 GB . Question: Is it typical, and/or best practice, and/or even required, that these days with MS Exchange 2013 we can/should/mustexclude any of these three paths from regular file system backups? D:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange server\V15\TransportRoles\data D:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange server\V15\TransportRoles\Logs D:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange server\V15\Logging . Thanks in advance.
