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Try Directory Replication for backing up Exchange stores...
At 09:04 AM 4/3/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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
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