Alex
Personal preference of the Exchange Admin I would guess. Ask them to read
the differences between a full and incr backups.

For the record, a Full does a full DB Backup and then purges the log files -
Incrementals will do the log files - I know some Exchange Admins prefer full
backups only.

Again, comes down to what they want to do, and may relate to recovery in
some cases - although unlikely. At the end of the day, in a failure it's the
last full plus the incremental backup.

As long as the databases are set to overwrite with a restore, should be ok!

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Wilkinson, Alex [mailto:alex.wilkinson AT dsto.defence.gov DOT au] 
Sent: 30 April 2006 07:54
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Microsoft Exchange Backups ... [recommendations
please]



Hi all,

Is there any reason whatsoever why Full+Incremental backups of Microsoft
Exchange are risky ? Our mail team is very dubious about moving to a
Full+Incremental backup paradigm for Exchange.

What do others do ? Is there a "best practices" way of doing it ?

 -aW
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