You need an Exchange Agent for ArcServe to backup exchange, otherwise you need to shutdown Exchange services at night=20 to backup copies of the .edb files. > -----Original Message----- > From: christine easton [mailto:christine.easton@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:23 PM > To: 'msexchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: [msexchange] Information Store Question >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > Hello all, >=20 > I'm running Windows 2k with Exchange 5.5. We use ArcServe to=20 > backup with > the Exchange agent to back up our information store. My question is, > Arcserve is reporting that it can not read our priv.edb and pub.edb to > backup are stuff (this does not happend all the time). My backup tech > states it's because our information store is corrupt. Could=20 > that be? I > thought our exchange server be dead in the water? Nothing in=20 > our exchange > event logs and we are running fine. I think that maybe That=20 > particular > backup job failed, but before I talk him about it I wanted to=20 > get other feed > back. >=20 > Thanks >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Use the below link for Archives, > and to set your preferences. >=20 > http://thethin.net/exchangelist.cfm >=20 ===================== Use the below link for Archives, and to set your preferences. http://thethin.net/exchangelist.cfm