Re: [BackupPC-users] Can $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} and $Conf{DumpPost UserCm

Rob, we want to move away from tape backups which we had been doing
previously with NTBackup and ArcserveIT but are restricted in our options
because Exchange 5.5 is running on a Windows NT 4.0 Server.

I am using ExMerge already to supplement BackupPC with an approximation of
the old ArcserveIT brick-level mailbox backups.

If you know of any disk-to-disk backup utility that would run on a Windows
NT 4.0 Server or would run on another server and would recognize Exchange
5.5 across the network, I'd love to know about it.

Thanks.

Jess

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Owens [mailto:rowens AT ptd DOT net] 
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:34 AM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} and
$Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} be used to s top and start Exchange Server 5.5 on a
Windows NT 4.0 Server as part of a BackupPC job?

I used to backup an exchange server using BackupPC and a couple Microsoft
utilities:  ntbackup and exmerge.  Both of them can back up the exchange
database while exchange is running.  I then used BackupPC to backup the
output of those utilities.  

ntbackup creates one huge file for the exchange database.  Exmerge creates a
separate pst file for each mailbox.  

-Rob

On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 04:34:19PM -0700, Jessie M. Bunker-Maxwell wrote:
> We are just beginning to use BackupPC running on a Debian Linux server to
> backup our Exchange Server 5.5 databases via rsyncd running on the Windows
> NT 4.0 server where Exchange is installed.
> 
> Currently, we have bat files scheduled to run on our Windows NT 4.0
Exchange
> Server to stop Exchange services before the BackupPC job runs and start
> Exchange services afterwards.  But this means we're estimating the length
of
> time needed for the backups and scheduling these jobs with a safe margin
in
> either direction.
> 
> I am concerned that: 1) we are leaving our Exchange database down longer
> than necessary; and 2) if something goes wrong and the procedures that
stop
> or start the Exchange database run while BackupPC has the Exchange files
> open for backup, we may corrupt our Exchange data (am I being paranoid
> here?).
> 
> It would be nice if the BackupPC job itself could issue the "net stop" and
> "net start" commands and I'm assuming I would use the
$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd}
> and $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} but I don't understand from the documentation
how
> this would be done if you're issuing commands to a Windows server.  Maybe
> this is not possible?
> 
> Can someone tell me if/how I could use $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd}  and
> $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} to remotely stop and start Exchange?
> 
> Does anyone know if there is any risk around attempting to stop or start
the
> Exchange services while BackupPC has the files open for backup?
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
> Jess
> 
> Jessie M. Bunker-Maxwell
> Network Access Services
> Santa Cruz Public Library
> 224 Church St.
> Santa Cruz, CA 95060
> v: 831-420-5764
> f: 831-459-7936
> e: jessb AT santacruzpl DOT org
> 
> 

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Can $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} and $Conf{DumpPost UserCmd} be used to s top and start Exchange Server 5.5 on a Windows NT 4 .0 Server as part of a BackupPC job?
