Re: Speed up /Alternative to brick level backup
Ief wrote:
> We are backup total 60GB of exchange data. The brick level takes 7 hours to
> disk to complete. Is there a way to speed-up brick level backup or
> alternatives?
>
Don't worry about brick level if you're using Exchange 2003. You can
mount the entire private store in a recovery group and then pull out the
individual mailbox. Another alternative would be to use something like
the ontrack power controls to restore an indivudal mailbox from a full
..edb backup, but it's relatively expensive. However, it takes far less
space to do a full instance backup instead of a brick level. See this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/UseE2k3RecStorGrps/8bcc6e38-363a-43ad-9c43-3f558a435b06.mspx
Turn on deleted items and deleted mailbox retention and push out a
registry mod that turns on DumpsterAlwaysOn. That way, any
accidentally deleted items can be pulled out of the dumpster without a
recovery - much, much quicker and you don't have to rely on backups as a
undelete service (a major pet peeve of mine).
I never delete accounts unless I exmerge out their mailbox first.
Typically, i just disable the account and put it in a "deleted users"
OU. This keeps me from having the enormous headache of having to
restore a user's mailbox after they have left and their account (and
therefore GUID) has been wiped off the face of the domain.
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Sincerely,
Daniel S. Tate,
MCSA+Messaging,
Sun Certified Security, Network and Systems Administrator
date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:22:51 -0600
author: Daniel Tate
