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Retrospect does not do live exchange backups, but even without that option,
it is IMO the best backup software around for the price. I have used several
apporaches to exchange backups, with varying levels of success.
1. Offline Backup. For a while I had a scheduled offline backup which shut
down the exchange services and copied the mail store and associated files to
a separate drive. This drive was then backup up using retrospect. Upside is
that this is IMO the easiest backup to recover with. Downside is that file
copies take a long time if your information store is large and you may not
want your server offline for that long. I can send you the cmd file that
will do this if you are interested.
2. Seagate Backup Exec. This may be a great solution, but I decided that I
liked my current daily activities and didn't want to spend so much time
learning to use Backup Exec. It is also fairly expensive and AFAIK will also
require a tape drive. It was a far to complicated colution for our
situation.
3. A cheap HP Surestore T20i. The drive costs less than $500 with some
tapes. Each tape hold 10 GB which is plenty for our information store
(approx 5GB). Others will have to comment on the reliability of these tape
drives/tapes, I haven't had any problems but haven't been using it all that
long either.
Let's hope Dantz does get into this area with Retrospect.
jbh
Tom Roth wrote:
> You might check out Dantz's Retrospect for Windows NT,
> <http://www.dantz.com>. They have a free trial version of the Windows
> Retrospect you can download. I don't know if it can do a
> live Exchange
> Server or not. That kind of thing is usually only available on the
> higher end backups like ARCserve which is what we use on our
> NT Server.
> We use the Mac version of Retrospect to backup the Macs
> though. It just
> works better.
>
> > Owen Watson wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for cheap software that runs on NT Server that backs up
> > the Registry and a live Exchange server on a regular basis to a
> > network volume. I'd use NT Backup, but it only drives tape drives.
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