backing up exchange

fimchick · January 10th, 2006

how do you guys back up exchange? do you back up the individual mailboxes *and* the stores? or just one and the other?

my backup is taking a long time and it's twice the size of the hard-drive, so it's obviously duplicating itself by doing both mailboxes and stores.

thanks for any replies!

**madmatt** · January 10th, 2006

I backup the brick level on the server using CA's BrigtStor (11.5) and the Exchange Agent.

**fitz** · January 10th, 2006

We were using Commvault to do mailbox and store backups.. during a recent DR test, we had a lot of problems restoring the store (in that we never got the store back up and running) and are now doing NTBackups on the store (which we also succeded with in DR after failing with CommVault) and CommVault mailbox backups until we can get it all sorted out.

fimchick · January 11th, 2006

So it looks like some people are doing both mailboxes and store, while others mailboxes?

**madmatt** · January 11th, 2006

You should do both. The master database (MDB) and brick level.

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fimchick OSNN Senior Addict Joined: March 2004 Location: Somewhere Posts: 276 Reputation: 220 Power: 104	backing up exchange how do you guys back up exchange? do you back up the individual mailboxes and the stores? or just one and the other? my backup is taking a long time and it's twice the size of the hard-drive, so it's obviously duplicating itself by doing both mailboxes and stores. thanks for any replies! The problem with doing nothing all day, is that you never really know when you're done. Athlon 64 3200+ Asus A8V Deluxe 2gb Corsair ValueSelect Dual Channel DDR 3200 Ati x800XL 256mb Hdd #1 (SATA 100gb) Hdd #2 (ATA 80gb) Check out http://www.resistometer.com

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madmatt Bow Down to the King Joined: April 2002 Location: New York Posts: 13,312 Reputation: 4090 Power: 297	Re: backing up exchange I backup the brick level on the server using CA's BrigtStor (11.5) and the Exchange Agent.

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fitz *XPista7eopardix Joined: April 2004 Location: Chicagoland Posts: 4,028 Reputation: 2947 Power: 168**	Re: backing up exchange We were using Commvault to do mailbox and store backups.. during a recent DR test, we had a lot of problems restoring the store (in that we never got the store back up and running) and are now doing NTBackups on the store (which we also succeded with in DR after failing with CommVault) and CommVault mailbox backups until we can get it all sorted out. Hee-hee! Evil makes my buttocks tingle.

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fimchick OSNN Senior Addict Joined: March 2004 Location: Somewhere Posts: 276 Reputation: 220 Power: 104	Re: backing up exchange So it looks like some people are doing both mailboxes and store, while others mailboxes? The problem with doing nothing all day, is that you never really know when you're done. Athlon 64 3200+ Asus A8V Deluxe 2gb Corsair ValueSelect Dual Channel DDR 3200 Ati x800XL 256mb Hdd #1 (SATA 100gb) Hdd #2 (ATA 80gb) Check out http://www.resistometer.com

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madmatt Bow Down to the King Joined: April 2002 Location: New York Posts: 13,312 Reputation: 4090 Power: 297	Re: backing up exchange You should do both. The master database (MDB) and brick level.

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