Brick-level backups with exchange 2003
- Thread starter Dangerous
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They are slow, inefficient and most of the time close to useless. I don't do brick level backups, and can only think of one single occasion when they might have been useful.
A brick level backup is not something that Microsoft have provided for Exchange, so each backup provider has to use their own method. This usually means opening each mailbox and copying out each item.
Exchange 2003 has a feature called the recovery storage group. This allows you to restore the entire store to a separate group then extract what you need.
I thought that Symantec had gotten rid of brick level backups in Backup Exec 11 and introduced something else that does similar things in a different way but much faster - it looks like a kind of log shipping.
Stelly
A brick level backup is not something that Microsoft have provided for Exchange, so each backup provider has to use their own method. This usually means opening each mailbox and copying out each item.
Exchange 2003 has a feature called the recovery storage group. This allows you to restore the entire store to a separate group then extract what you need.
I thought that Symantec had gotten rid of brick level backups in Backup Exec 11 and introduced something else that does similar things in a different way but much faster - it looks like a kind of log shipping.
Stelly
Dangerous said:
I seriously doubt it... I would schedule it either when everyone is gone home, or over the weekend... I just think that its rather slow...
We use that LTO3 drive as well... very good BUT locks itself from time to time... took me a while to find that to unlock it you dont do it through the drive, ow no, you do it through backup exec!!!
Stelly
Stelly said:
Our backups start after everyone has left the office
I'm having a problem with trying to do a full inventry on the unit - Unless I select each tape it will go offline after the 1st tape?
I can unlock the drive in backup exec?