I (fortunately) don't have any more an Exchange 2003 server to backup, but my configuration was as follows:

- 3 pair of drives with an Exchange Replica for 3 databases
- The 3 pair of drives mounted in folders inside C:\StoreExchange with the disk manager
- Circuar logging disabled
- 300+gb of database

Here is the job definition for the jobs; they were running fine most of the time. Of course to restore something you still need to create a "restore database" in the exchange console, restore data and then import what you need in the original databases. You cannot do Incremental restores of data to an Exchange server.

Inside the commented lines you can also find some additional config that may be useful if you run the Community or the Enterprise variants.

Again, as per the VSS plugin, you can remove all the lines for exchange and exclude lists and backup everything using VSS. When you need to restore, simply attach the database to the "restore" copy.

JobDefs {
    Name = windows-backup-srv-exchange-be
    Type = Backup
    Level = Incremental
    FileSet = "FullSet-Windows-Exchange"
    Messages = Standard
    Priority = 10
#    ClientRunBeforeJob = "start /w ntbackup backup systemstate /F C:\\SystemState.bkf"
#    ClientRunAfterJob = "del C:\\SystemState.bkf"
    Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
    Rerun Failed Levels = yes
}

JobDefs {
        Name = windows-restore-srv-exchange-be
        Type = Restore
        FileSet = "FullSet-Windows-Exchange"
        Messages = Standard
        Priority = 10
}

FileSet {
    Name = "FullSet-Windows-Exchange"
    Enable VSS = yes

    Include {
        Options {
            signature = MD5
            ignorecase = yes
        }
        Options {
            wildfile = "[A-Z]:/pagefile.sys"
            wildfile = "[A-Z]:/hiberfil.sys"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/TEMP"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/FTPRoot"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/Service"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/TEMP"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Cookies"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Recent"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/History"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temp"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/RECYCLER"
            wilddir = "[A-Z]:/dfs*"

            wilddir = "C:/StoreExchange/*"
            wilddir = "C:/StoreExchange/*"
            wilddir = "C:/StoreExchange/*"
            wildfile = "[A-Z]:/*.edb"
            wildfile = "[A-Z]:/*.log"
            wildfile = "[A-Z]:/*.chk"

            exclude = yes
        }
                File = C:/
                File = E:/
                File = F:/
                File = I:/
                File = J:/
                File = K:/
                File = L:/
        Plugin = "exchange:/@EXCHANGE/Microsoft Information Store"
#        Plugin = "alldrives: exclude=fjl"
#        Plugin = "vss:/@SYSTEMSTATE/"
#        Plugin = "vss:/@EXCHANGE/"
#        Plugin = "vss:/@EXCHANGE/Microsoft Exchange Writer/Microsoft Exchange Server/Microsoft Information Store/SRV-EXCHANGE-BE/"
    }

}

Regards,
--Simone