Is there a way to perform a brick level backup of the Exchange 2000 data store without implementing (or installing) 3rd party software products? Thanks for your advise. John.
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:58:00 -0700, John L. wrote: >Is there a way to perform a brick level backup of the Exchange 2000 data >store without implementing (or installing) 3rd party software products? > >Thanks for your advise. > >John. Exmerge.
For a small shop with just a few users and no mailboxes over 2GB, you could probably make do with exmerge. Anything other than that you'd want to go with 3rd party utilities. Exmerge, or any blbs that rely on pst files matter, don't scale well. "Andy David {MVP}" wrote in message news:gapp049s0mm76e47ui9e9b68d9ppphlr92@4ax.com... > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:58:00 -0700, John L. > wrote: > >>Is there a way to perform a brick level backup of the Exchange 2000 data >>store without implementing (or installing) 3rd party software products? >> >>Thanks for your advise. >> >>John. > > > Exmerge. >
DPM 2007 To restore a mailbox - simply select it from the DPM 2007 console and it handles the process of restoring the mailbox's database to an appropriate Recovery Storage Group (RSG), and then selectively mounts just that mailbox for extraction and recovery - the right way. taken from http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/6/E/86EBB3CA-5CC4-4E22-ADB4-F972CD907EAA/DPM2007_datasheet_How_to_protect_Exchange.doc -- Peter O'Dowd Exchange Server MVP http://www.blade.net.nz "John L." wrote in message news:18EC269D-6577-4466-A7BA-955E685423D0@microsoft.com... > Is there a way to perform a brick level backup of the Exchange 2000 data > store without implementing (or installing) 3rd party software products? > > Thanks for your advise. > > John.
Here is a very good read as well: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/03/19/448477.aspx -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Dgoldman http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman Download OABInteg (http://gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Download.aspx?SampleGuid=A2338E73-F521-4071-9B1D-AAF49C346ACD) "Peter O'Dowd (MVP)" wrote in message news:emPeBvorIHA.1772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > DPM 2007 > > To restore a mailbox - simply select it from the DPM 2007 console and it > handles the process of restoring the mailbox's database to an appropriate > Recovery Storage Group (RSG), and then selectively mounts just that > mailbox for extraction and recovery - the right way. > > > > taken from > http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/6/E/86EBB3CA-5CC4-4E22-ADB4-F972CD907EAA/DPM2007_datasheet_How_to_protect_Exchange.doc > > > -- > Peter O'Dowd > Exchange Server MVP > http://www.blade.net.nz > "John L." wrote in message > news:18EC269D-6577-4466-A7BA-955E685423D0@microsoft.com... >> Is there a way to perform a brick level backup of the Exchange 2000 data >> store without implementing (or installing) 3rd party software products? >> >> Thanks for your advise. >> >> John. > >
Which brings us to the achilles heel of this design. Even if you backup from the passive node of a CCR cluster, you can only restore to the active node. From the MSExchange team link it's a bit more convolted, "Essentially the Exchange VSS Store Writer is responsible for the backup and restore of the active database and the Replication Writer is responsible for the backup of the replica database. A restore of a backup of a replica database, however, is controlled by the VSS Store Writer." If you go this route, you have to fail the cluster over in order to restore a single mailbox. Put another way, restoring a single mailbox impacts all of the users on the cluster. "Dgoldman [MSFT]" wrote in message news:uLDhOvxrIHA.5724@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Here is a very good read as well: > http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/03/19/448477.aspx > > -- > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no > rights. > > Dgoldman > http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman > Download OABInteg > (http://gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Download.aspx?SampleGuid=A2338E73-F521-4071-9B1D-AAF49C346ACD) > > > "Peter O'Dowd (MVP)" wrote in message > news:emPeBvorIHA.1772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> DPM 2007 >> >> To restore a mailbox - simply select it from the DPM 2007 console and it >> handles the process of restoring the mailbox's database to an appropriate >> Recovery Storage Group (RSG), and then selectively mounts just that >> mailbox for extraction and recovery - the right way. >> >> >> >> taken from >> http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/6/E/86EBB3CA-5CC4-4E22-ADB4-F972CD907EAA/DPM2007_datasheet_How_to_protect_Exchange.doc >> >> >> -- >> Peter O'Dowd >> Exchange Server MVP >> http://www.blade.net.nz >> "John L." wrote in message >> news:18EC269D-6577-4466-A7BA-955E685423D0@microsoft.com... >>> Is there a way to perform a brick level backup of the Exchange 2000 data >>> store without implementing (or installing) 3rd party software products? >>> >>> Thanks for your advise. >>> >>> John. >> >> > >
