Backup Solutions that are Exchange aware?

Django x2 · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:21

Having endless problems with NTBackup.

What decent products are out there for exchange aware backups?

Veritas and others, but looking for easy to use GUIs for the Help Desk.

Thanks

mrbios · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:34

I've always found backup exec to have a very straight forward GUI and I've never had an issue since day one of installing the exchange license

I'd recommend it, except i haven't used anything else so i have nothing to compare it too

richard smith · 19 Mar 2009 at 14:41

Backup exec here too.

iaind · 19 Mar 2009 at 14:50

Ditto. No real problems on the Exchange side

katana6434 · 19 Mar 2009 at 15:40

Backup Exec with the Exchange agent. Works a treat.

Django x2 · 19 Mar 2009 at 17:47

So use this with ExMerge?

iaind · 19 Mar 2009 at 17:51

Brick level backups mean you can recover individual messages or folders straight into the mailbox :cool:

UKDTweak · 19 Mar 2009 at 18:00

Our sites use Backup Exec, not needed to actually use it to recover anything though, bar a .pst that was corrupted, however, the recovered .pst was also corrupted, but I guess they just did not recover a version old enough ?

iaind · 19 Mar 2009 at 19:29

PST files can often be reported by backup exec as corrupted if they're backed up in use...

Although if its actually unusable, then use scanpst.exe to fix it.

PST files are my nemesis...

Deathwish · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:30

Netbackup and BackupExec with no issues.

iaind: PSTs were my problem too, until I implemented KVS Enterprise Vault then banned PSTs

iaind · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:37

We've banned PSTs too but havent got any sort of archiving, resulting in some rather epic mailboxes (2gb+)

Looking at solutions now but KVS is a bit out of our league as a smaller company - looking at GFI archiver...

Sin_Chase · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:49

CA ArcServe 12 addresses a lot that the previous versions failed on and its actually rather quite nice to use, especially the new logging GUI.

One of the packaged versions comes with Exchange Information Store and Brick level backup as part of the product, when I am at work tomorrow I will dig out the datasheets for you if you like.

mr.bond · 19 Mar 2009 at 22:10

Backup Exec here, from V9-12d. Can vouch for the Exchange agents, was up until 4am one Monday morning restoring approx 100GB of databases.

Shoei · 20 Mar 2009 at 08:25

Same again with backup exec and the exchange plugin.
Makes it very easy to recover individual emails that users some how delete with out knowing!

Liquidfox · 22 Mar 2009 at 17:35

As you can see, Backup Exec is a very popular one. We use it along with the Exchange Agent too... only problem we have had with it is when removing users, it seems to take a while to notice that the mailboxes have actually gone...

iaind · 22 Mar 2009 at 17:41

That shouldnt happen in the new brick level agent in 10D upwards...

sparkey196 · 22 Mar 2009 at 20:58

I'm using mailarchiva (free version) and it does the job well enough.