Having talked to one of our Exchange experts, I've come to discover
the fallacy of keeping a zillion backups of Exchange data.

Exchange 5.5 (and I assume 2000 as well) cannot deal with a loss of
connectivity to the network of more than 72 hours. If you attempt to
restore data that is older than that, Exchange will not work properly.

Thus it seems folly to backup Exchange data with a preservation of
more than 3 days.

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)