Heh. :-) Those darn stores were getting too big to get scanned in the required timeframe, actually... -----Original Message----- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.houseman@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 4:04 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: OfflineDefrag: question regarding backups http://www.MSExchange.org/ Sounds like someone's customers were not keeping the hardware powered on overnight like they were told... :-) -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:36 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: OfflineDefrag: question regarding backups IF THEY ARE ALLOWED TO COMPLETE. Sorry, not meaning to shout -- but it's a very important point. If you aren't getting 1221's at least every 3 days, then it may need to be investigate more fully.... -----Original Message----- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.houseman@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:31 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: OfflineDefrag: question regarding backups The collective wisdom is that an offline defrag should not be performed unless needed to free up disk space. The regularly nightly online defrags are sufficient to maintain performance. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Dan Klobnak [mailto:dan.klobnak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:00 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] OfflineDefrag: question regarding backups Hi there, have Exhange Standard 2000 sp3 on Server 2000 sp4. Have been contemplating doing an offline defrag (we never have since the initial install in 2002) We use Veritas 9.1 with an Exchange Agent. We back up both the store and the mailboxes. Have done some restores in past. An associate raised the idea that it may be a good idea, on top of the Veritas backups, to close all the Exchange services and then do a flat file backup of relevant info. Can accommodate the down time to do so. Just wondering if any benefit? If the db was to be corrupted during the restore, can I use the backed up flat files, or will there be some other internal modifications which may prevent Exchange from 'recognizing' the older db files? Thanks, D ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: michael@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx