There is a "poor-mans" option.... by using Exmerge you create .pst files of all of your user email account. You can create this process as a nightly job before you run your actual backup, thus you are basically creating backups of each email account allowing you to restore individual mailboxes if needed..... -----Original Message----- From: Dolly Bareqet [mailto:dolly@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 6:57 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Backup procedure for Exchange 2K http://www.MSExchange.org/ For the first question: No, But you should backup also the system state. For the second question: Ntbackup is backing up the whole information store you cannot recover a single mailbox. Only third party backup software does this. I use backup Exec for backing up my Exchange Server. Dolly Bareqet System Administrator iMDsoft(r) +972-3-6449333 +240 +972-54-957550 dolly@xxxxxxxxxxxx www.imd-soft.com -----Original Message----- From: Imran Abdul Khaliq [mailto:imran.abdulkhaliq@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 8:45 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Backup procedure for Exchange 2K http://www.MSExchange.org/ Dear All, Can any one tell me that if i am backing up my Exchange 2000 using windows 2000 ntbackup utility should i select only information store under exhcnag server or do i have to select the mapped drive for exchange under my local partitions Can any one tell me is there a way to recover single maibox/email using windows 2000 built in ntbackup utility. Best Regards Imran Abdul Khaliq Systems Administrator Arab Telecom Tel : 801888 Ext 265 Gsm : 9790605 Fax : 2463136 ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: dolly@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')