Hi, I am trying to do a flat file backup of Exchange 2003 Database. Here is what I have done: 1) stop exchange services 2) backup the system/boot drive c:\ which contains the exchange installation 3) included the database on drive D:\ i.e D:\ExchSrvr 4) included the logs on drive E:\ i.e E:\ExchSrvr My question is have I included more than what i need to backup or have I missed something? Thanks for your help
Not enough. By doing it this way, in the event of a problem you will never be able to replay the log files to get an up to date restore. You are better off doing an online backup. What is the reason for flat file backup? "Samuel" wrote in message news:9771A316-0444-4D68-B630-E36A637CC788@microsoft.com... > Hi, > > I am trying to do a flat file backup of Exchange 2003 Database. > > Here is what I have done: > > 1) stop exchange services > 2) backup the system/boot drive c:\ > which contains the exchange installation > > 3) included the database on drive D:\ > > i.e D:\ExchSrvr > > 4) included the logs on drive E:\ > > i.e E:\ExchSrvr > > > My question is have I included more than what i need to backup or have I > missed something? > > Thanks for your help
Samuel wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to do a flat file backup of Exchange 2003 Database. > > Here is what I have done: > > 1) stop exchange services > 2) backup the system/boot drive c:\ > which contains the exchange installation > > 3) included the database on drive D:\ > > i.e D:\ExchSrvr > > 4) included the logs on drive E:\ > > i.e E:\ExchSrvr > > > My question is have I included more than what i need to backup or have I > missed something? > > Thanks for your help If you really want a flat file backup, i'd run NTbackup on the local machine and direct it to create your flat file. Then you can back that up. I am in agreement with the previous poster, you will be in a world of hurt trying to restore a db with your method.
I got this from: Answer: Many people have a misunderstanding about this. The simplest answer is to back up the Exchange server at the file-level first, excluding the information store directories. This will capture all the files, including the transaction logs. Then start another job to capture the system states. Finally, the Exchange-aware backup is run which will purge the logsI got this from: http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid43_gci1256683,00.html?track=ag_exchange_server_2003 It seems that one needs to do a file backup at the Operating System level. A couple of grey areas: 1) it says: "excluding the information store directories" so in my case that would be c:\ // which has the o/s and E:\ExchSrvr // which has the transaction logs but not D:\ExchSrvr\MDBData which has the priv1.mdb and priv1.stm thanks for your help
