Comments on: Exchange Server 2003 backup with normal Windows backup http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/exchange-server-2003-backup-with-normal-windows-backup/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:39:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: baseerm http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/exchange-server-2003-backup-with-normal-windows-backup/#comment-66804 baseerm Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:13:26 +0000 #comment-66804 Thank you Elvis, can you please let me know how to restore backup to a new server?
How can I install a second server in the same domain and if you are telling me to install in different domain that means like a new server in new domain then it needs active directory and DNS for this also since exchange 2003 will not work without AD & DNS, am I right? Please correct me or show me if any techno trick to avoid these things.
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]]> By: elvishkp http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/exchange-server-2003-backup-with-normal-windows-backup/#comment-66772 elvishkp Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:41:47 +0000 #comment-66772 I can think of 1 scenario that would lead to these symptoms but be fairly “normal” and not an indicator of a problem. The Exchange e-mail “store” is a database type file system. So, as its need for space grows, it can dynamically increase in size. However if you delete signficant amountts from the database, unless you run eseutil/defrags to reclaim the white space the database size will stay the same, it will just have lots of white space in the file. Your users will just be working in this white space and as long as the datastore doesn’t need more space the file size and or the size of your native windows backup wouldn’t change.

Having been burned a few times on thinking I had good backups and then not being able to restore my info when I needed it however, I would not be overly confident, and would attempt a restore to another server, just to make sure the data is really there, and getting updated.

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