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alocurto

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I have not delt with exchange servers often but I am dealing with one now. Its a pretty simple setup. Exhange 2000 on SBS 2000. There is a tape backup in the machine using a specific tape backup software (the name is escaoing me right now). The backup backs up files no problem, how do I get the exchange data backed up easily? Any ideas? How do you do it? Ever restore from tape?
 
look in the exchange server folder for a folder called MDBDATA. There should be a priv1.stm & priv1.edb, that's your mailboxes and yada yada data. the pub1.edb & .stm are the public folders. those are the database files used to in that M:
 
oh, and restoring exchange is a pain in the rump. if your server crashes, you gotta basically build another server with identicle settings in terms of the name, domain, etc. then setup exchange with the same settings, then clean and mount that priv1 database file. then you gotta clean all of the mailboxes and then add a new user without giving them their own mailbox. then you gotta point the cleaned mailboxes to the new user. it's a real pain! look in MS knowledge base, it's in there.
 
Exchange is a pain in the butt indeed. I usually use Merak Mail as it is stable and easy to admin. Plus the mail is stored in files and folders, not a self made storage format. Right now I am backing up the full M drive, I will change it to just those files.

The server has RAID5 and a tape backup, hopefully restoring will never to be done.

Thanks for the reply!
 
i highly recommend a ghosting software that will take an image of a server while it's still on. we use v2i here, it's a bit pricey, but damn is it nice! it can be scheduled to do incremental backups every hour for however long you want, full backups, scheduled any day of the month or days. really good. there's more software out there that does the same thing but isn't as pricey. this way, even if your whole comp dies, you can just put the last known working image on another comp 🙂
 
That isn't going to happen. The user data doesn't change that often so daily is fine. Thanks for you help.
 
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