Re: Backup on EXCHANGE without TAPE Drive
- From: Lomker Michael <mlomker@xxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 17:21:39 -0500
I have a simple question. It's possible to made a backup for exchange
without having a tape drive on server which is running Exchange?
You have essentially two options:
1) Stop Exchange using a batch file and use standard backup software to
do your server backups at night. Some of my smaller customers can
tolerate having the server down during the backup window so this works
just fine.
2) Buy the Exchange agent for Arcserve or Backup Exec and back up your
servers to a remote box. Be warned the the down-time to execute a
restore can be ridiculous. If you have a 10 gig store then you you are
looking at 4 hours to do a restore/backup....way too much time if your
company is dependent on their e-mail.
As always, it is a trade-off between cost and how much down-time that
you can tolerate. I always put tape drives AND backup agents on the
Exchange server itself. Many companies become very dependent on their
e-mail and you'll be in quite a pickle if you take an entire day to do a
disaster recovery.
Ask me how I know? It took me about 34 hours in 2 days to perform a
recent disaster recovery and clean up the problems resulting from
it....and I HAVE the tape drive on the server. I consider the whole
issue of tape backup a CYA thing....recommend it strongly if you value
your job.
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