I think you are doing it backwards. You want to back up the database, and only if needed do a brick level backup. John T From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nick Robinson Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:20 PM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Backing up Exchange 2003 Would anyone mind sharing with me how they are backing up their exchange server 2003? My Users have tripled in the last 2 months and now it is requiring me to use 3 dlt tapes per day. I am currently using CA for exchange daily backing up microsoft exchange server brick level. Is anyone doing anything different or special? is there a need to backup the database level? Thanks Nick