[msexchange] Re: Problem on my exchange server

Its a highly debated subject on this and other lists. 
My opinion is that for smaller organizations brick
level backups might be fine, but for larger ones its
not practical.  With a proper Disaster Recovery plan
its really not needed as well.  Its not feasible for
me to backup up a 40GB IS in a brick level fashion as
it would take up 80GB or more on tape (you lose single
instance storage at that point).

With 25 users, I would shut down exchange and find
your priv, pub and dir.edb files.  Copy them someplace
on the network with enough space.  That will be your
backup in case the SP goes haywire.  With those 3
files (in a properly shut down state, i.e. consistent
state) you can recover to that point in time with
little effort.  With Exch 5.5 those three files are
it!  Before you make any major changes its a good idea
to take offline backups of those.  Make sure you know
the name of your ORG, SITE and SERVER as well, mostly
just the server name, but others are good if you need
to do other things, such as do DR on a directory or
something.

Anyway, good luck and have fun :)

Travis
 
--- "Hough, John" <jhough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> yeah i need to do a test backup of an individual
> mailbox and restore to make
> sure it's working ok.  do you do individual mailbox
> backups or the entire
> message store? or both?  I only do the store cause
> veritas told me
> individual box backups take a long time, long enough
> so my regular nightly
> backups wouldn't have time to complete.  thanks for
> the help.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Parrent [mailto:tparrent@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: msexchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [msexchange] Re: Problem on my exchange
> server
> 
> 
> 
> Thats what backups are for.  Besides SP4 for
> exchange
> is about the most stable release of a service pack
> i've seen from MS.  18 servers here without a hitch.
> 
> And lots of bug fixes.
> 
> 
> --- "Hough, John" <jhough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, that's something I've asked you all about
> > before also... unfortunately
> > I don't have a spare server that I can build and
> > test the database on sp4
> > before it goes live, i'd be upgrading to a live
> > server and frankly it's
> > scarin the piss outta me that I'm gonna hose the
> > data, ya know cause ms's
> > service packs have been so reliable when applying
> > them... lol ... last thing
> > I need is 25 lawyers freakin out cause their
> emails
> > are gone.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Ensor [mailto:densor@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:19 AM
> > To: 'msexchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: [msexchange] Re: Problem on my exchange
> > server
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi John
> > 
> > Sorry didn't notice your Sp 3 reference, update
> your
> > sp to the latest one
> > and then see how you go. Cheers Dan
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hough, John [mailto:jhough@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:14 PM
> > To: 'msexchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: [msexchange] Problem on my exchange
> server
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Good morning,
> > 
> > 2 days in a row now the Internet Mail Service for
> > Exchange (5.5, sp3) on my
> > server has crashed, generating the following Event
> > (ID 4037) -
> > 
> > An exception has occurred which was handled
> > internally by the Internet Mail
> > Service.  This may have resulted in a message not
> > being delivered. Code:
> > 0xc0000005 Flags: 0x00000000 Address: 0x0043550a
> > 
> > Inter-office email still functions, but no one can
> > receive or send mail
> > outside the office.
> > 
> > Anyone know what's causing this?  Thanks.
> > 
> > 
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