Hi Keith

For what I've read, you can rely on the VSS snapshot (no individual mailbox 
backup, but don't seem to be your way)
After that for a restore, we have to restore the exchange into "Restore Mag" if 
the server is a new install.
Otherwise ( for the moment I don't know ) I don't understand if there or not a 
real trouble.
After while VSS is what it's use on all windows part if it can restore a 
registry why not a serveur.
For sure not as stable as a postfix/qmail restore would be.

In the next three week on one of my customers, I can try the backup restore of 
their Exchange as we would have the new
hardware ready. So I would give it a try a give you some fresh informations.


Keith Sudbury wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I am going to backup MS Exchange server 2003 using NTBackup and get the 
> client to run this batch file before running the actual backup of the 
> windows server.
> 
> The batch file I have looks like this :
> 
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@C:\Documents and 
> Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows 
> NT\NTBackup\data\Exchange.bks" /n "Exchange.bkf created 6/19/2008 at 
> 8:08 AM" /d "Set created 6/19/2008 at 8:08 AM" /v:yes /r:no /rs:no 
> /hc:off /m normal /j "Exchange" /l:s /f "C:\Backup\Exchange.bkf"
> 
> Does this look correct? Basically I want to just do a full backup of 
> exchange each day and over write the file in C:\Backup\Exchange.bkf 
> which the bacula-fd will pick up and write to the tape.
> 
> Once I have this working correctly I think I will make an entry on the 
> wiki page? Alot of people are posting "how do i backup exchange" this 
> seem the most reliable way I have found so far...
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 


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     Bruno Friedmann

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