Janco van der Merwe wrote:
> Morning All,
>
> I have been using both methods on a couple of sites and honestly both has 
> it's pros and cons.
>
> With the NTBackup way unnecessary space is used when the exchange.bkf is 
> created and when you have to restore it takes longer because now you have to 
> restore it from Bacula then use NTBACKUP to restore the .bkf file which, if 
> your exchange goes down or the DB corrupts and you have the BOSSES on your 
> back, tends to take too long. However with using NTBACKUP your exchange logs 
> are cleared - that is if you do not believe in circular logging!
>
> With Using VSS there is no unnecessary disk space usage for the backup 
> because as Bruno pointed out that a snapshot is taken of the Exchange Server 
> and that is backed up and with a restore it's a breeze. The cons are that the 
> log files are not cleared but I use circular logging and its works - TRIED 
> AND TESTED
>   
How do I go about backing this up? just include the DIR where the 
exchange DB is?
> For Individual Mailbox backup you have to use EXMERGE which will export the 
> mailboxes to pst and merge it after the backup is complete. This is quite a 
> nice tool especially when the user deletes mail or corrupts his mailbox. In 
> this case you do not have to restore the entire Exchange DB just the user's 
> pst.
>   
I was thinking of doing this, have you scripted this as well?
> A couple of months ago I read about a project for a Exchange File Daemon, I 
> can't find the link but I'll post it as soon as I find it again. 
>
> With regards,
> Janco van der Merwe
>
> Computer Kit Systems
> Tel Direct: 011 695 5316
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> e-mail: janco_va AT cks.co DOT za
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno Friedmann [mailto:bruno AT ioda-net DOT ch] 
> Sent: 19 June 2008 22:27
> Cc: baculausers
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] NTBackup Batch script to backup Exchange
>
> 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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