MS Exchange

[ashrobbo]

I used to run exchange 2003 a few years ago, AD integration was nice but i do prefer 2007 and upwards stance of a different console, i know some people hate this.

Im not a massive powershell user but can see its potential and flexibility, I do however hate having options only available in PS rather then the Console.

We run Exchange 2007 now, I actually find it fairly stable once its in and running but As soon as anything needs restoring I do find it a bit of a ball ache (rsg's etc) third party backup software allows individual mail retrieval easily.

Does 2010 improve on this? ability to natively restore single emails rather then a brick level restore + merge?

 

[Yamahahahahaha]

Does 2010 improve on this? ability to natively restore single emails rather then a brick level restore + merge?

No. Microsoft never released the tools necessary for proper item-level backups in 2010.
There are MAPI-based item-level backup approaches, but they are awfully slow (~400MB/min from a 6 disk 15k RAID10). IMO not worth bothering with.

Most tools take a snapshot at the database level, and allow you to granularly restore items from within that database. I haven't had any issues with this approach, it seems to be the standard way of doing things now.

 

[HungryHippos]

We use DPM to take backups - it's OK, bit simplistic though mind sometimes. And I hate the way it carves up the disks for each protection group, when you check the disk manager you have this massive LUN volume with loads of tiny sections for each one.

We have enabled 90 day item recovery so any stuff that is removed should be recoverable within that time frame.