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Re: [PLUG] Re: MS and SaaS (was Hello!)
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JP Vossen (jp@jpsdomain.org) had this to say on 11/06/07 at 18:41:
> Or am I just being bitter now? :-) But what I mean is, have you ever had
> to deal with the utter insanity required to usefully back up Exchange?
> Personally, I have not, but I've heard a lot of horror stories (many in
> more-or-less pro-MS magazines like Redmond).
>
Actually, yes. I used BackupExec 10d. Did a full backup every night. Did
have to do a restore once, to recover a deleted mailbox. Wasn't that hard;
you just had to follow the steps in the right order.
Granted that wasn't a full restore of an Exchange organization into an AD
from scratch, as you would need to do in a DR situation, but the normal sort
of backup was transparent, and restoring the whole IS (Information Store, or
the database that is all the Exchange mailboxes) to a temporary location
(known as a Recovery Storage Group), was trivial, really. I
then exported (using the exmerge command) the mailbox I wanted, and then
imported it (using the exmerge command again) into the production IS.
Mine was only about 20G or so, but honestly, it was really easy.
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