RE: Exchange 2000 Offline Backups
- From: "Linda Wilson" <lwilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:05:12 -0800
My experience with Backup Exec and batch files is it doesn't work... our
workaround has been to run the batch files on the Exchange server using
Scheduled tasks... one to stop the services prior to the backup job and the
other to start again after the backup has completed...
Linda
-----Original Message-----
From: Cox, Christopher [Allen & Heath UK] [mailto:Chris.Cox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 8:36 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange 2000 Offline Backups
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I don't know whether you have come across this one but it has totally perplexed
me and I can't find anything on the web to suggest what is happening.
I have been reading various papers on Exchange 2000 disaster recovery. And the
common suggestion is that it is good to have an offline exchange server in the
background that can be used to recover lost users data or in the event of a
disaster rebuild your site.
However, to achieve this, you need to have an offline backup of your server,
databases, log files, system state etc.
Veritas Backup Exec allows you to do this by including an "execute before
backup starts" and an "execute after backup completes" batch file when you run
a job. They suggest on their tech support site to use the following script
which we have copied and used:
Exchstop.bat
NET STOP pop3svc /yes
NET STOP imap4svc /yes
NET STOP MSExchangeES /yes
NET STOP MSExchangeMTA /yes
NET STOP MSExchangeIS /yes
NET STOP MSExchangeSA /yes
NET STOP MSExchangeSA /yes
This shuts down all the services before the backup starts. A similar batch file
starts the services following completion of the backup.
The only problem is that it does not appear to work.
If you execute the batch file from windows by double clicking it's icon in
explorer (when logged on with the backup exec service account) the batch file
works fine and all the services are properly shut down.
However, when run from the backup software, although the log file shows that
the batch file has been run, the services are not shut down and the .edb and
.stm files are not backed up (says skipping open files).
This seems bizarre. We used to use a script with Exchange 5.5 every once in a
while and I know that that worked.
My thoughts are that maybe the Windows 2000 security patches (lockdown.exe and
urlscan.exe) are preventing command line access to the backup exec program.
Could this be so and have you seen anything similar?
Happy Chrismas and all the best.
Chris Cox BEng, DiplEng
Information Technology Manager
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