2. All the emails on Sat and Sun will be lost; you need to do a daily backup. 4. Change of hardware is not a problem, but as far as I knew before I started using Veritas for backing up exchange, the server name and administrative group name should be the same, with Veritas you can redirect the restore to a different server. Regards Ruba Al Omari [Ruba Al Omari, Eng.] -----Original Message----- From: Mohammed Tantawi [mailto:mtantawi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 12:00 PM To: [ExchangeList] Cc: Ruba Al Omari, Eng. Subject: [exchangelist] RE: mailbox backup http://www.MSExchange.org/ Dear All, I have some Problem regarding Backup for Exchange 2000. ( I am still Planning for Backup ) What I am planning to do is:- Every Thu, after working hours take only off line backup . ( just only dismount Data base and then copy it in to the Tap Backup and write on that Tap the date which we take the backup on it . ) Then I will delete all of the Log Files, from the Hard disk. Then I will mount the Data Base again, and the user will work normally. Then in the next week on Thu, I will do the same steps for offline backup. But regarding all of the previous Procedures I have some questions:- 1. what will happen if I delete all of the Log files , is there any Problem from it. I mean with off line backup, all of the log file will be delete from the Hard disk and it will record it self in the Database while I am dismount it ., so is there any Problem will happen . ?? 2. what will happen if for Example , on Monday, I found that the Exchange server completely destroyed, and need to be reinstall again , and I will run restore again , what will happen to the E-mails which all of the users received it in Sat, Sun, Mon, they will be unable to retrive it back again . is it true ? so what is the solution to avoid this Problem. 3. is there any white paper for recovering individual Mailbox for one user. 4. is there any problem will happen to me if I take the Data base ( which I run off line backup ) & reinstall the Exchange on another server with different Hardware specification and different Hardware Profile and run restore off line to see the Data base will work normally or not , and test if I will be able to receive E-mails from this Data base or not . Best Regards, Mohammed _____ From: Ruba Al Omari, Eng. [mailto:romari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 18 رمضان, 1425 09:43 ص To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: mailbox backup http://www.MSExchange.org/ Now am using NAV for exchange but looking into changing to Antigen We do the IS backup ever day, its just eh monthly backup which we do the mailboxes and where the problems appear Regards, Ruba Al Omari _____ From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 10:47 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: mailbox backup http://www.MSExchange.org/ 1. You need to be backing up the Information Store. That is first priority to backup. Mail boxes are second priority. 2. What kind of AV are you running? John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -----Original Message----- From: Ruba Al Omari, Eng. [mailto:romari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 12:34 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] mailbox backup http://www.MSExchange.org/ Greetings all When I check after the monthly backup I find tons of notifications in the mail administrator inbox that a virus has been caught and message was deleted for many users. Those messages are old ones even from more than a year or could be recent too. And the concerned users receive a copy of the notification as well, and they panic. I have exchange 2000 and doing backup through veritas, the only thing when the problem appears is that the monthly backup we do the mailboxes not the information store, is there a way to stop these notifications? I don’t know why they are produced in the first place since these are old emails and supposed to be clean. And the next month the same messages have the same problems. Regards Ruba Al Omari