NetApp Snapmanager for Exchange Backup Troubles
We use netApp snapmanager for Exchange 5.0 for exchange database backup. We observe, everyday some Storage groups are missing from the Backup, though the status says “Backups of storage groups completed succesfully”. I have checked with some fellow admins on the same, they all say, it is a common problem with the SME, Has anyone [...]
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| August 25, 2011 12:32 PM
Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange administration, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange database, NetApp
We use netApp snapmanager for Exchange 5.0 for exchange database backup. We observe, everyday some Storage groups are missing from the Backup, though the status says “Backups of storage groups completed succesfully”. I have checked with some fellow admins on the same, they all say, it is a common problem with the SME, Has anyone [...]
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| August 25, 2011 12:32 PM
Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange administration, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange database, NetApp
Exchange 2005 brick level backup
How can I do a brick level backup on Exchange 2005? This has been mandated by my CTO. Can someone help me out with a step by step?
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| August 26, 2010 8:06 PM
Backup, Brick-level backup, Exchange 2005, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore
How can I do a brick level backup on Exchange 2005? This has been mandated by my CTO. Can someone help me out with a step by step?
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| August 26, 2010 8:06 PM
Backup, Brick-level backup, Exchange 2005, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore
Best practices for backing up Exchange 2007
What is the proper way to fully backup my Exchange 2007 server so I can rebuild it in case of a disaster? We are preparing our disaster recovery plan for our Exchange 2007. We have bought an identical machine to the first and now we need to create a plan to back it up and [...]
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| July 20, 2010 1:54 PM
Backup, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 backup, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore
What is the proper way to fully backup my Exchange 2007 server so I can rebuild it in case of a disaster? We are preparing our disaster recovery plan for our Exchange 2007. We have bought an identical machine to the first and now we need to create a plan to back it up and [...]
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| July 20, 2010 1:54 PM
Backup, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 backup, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore
What is the proper way to fully backup my Exchange 2007 server so I can rebuild it in case of a disaster?
We are preparing our disaster recovery plan for our Exchange 2007. We have bought a identical machine to the first and now we need to create a plan to back it up and restore it quickly.
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| July 7, 2010 5:46 PM
Disaster Recovery, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 backup and recovery, Exchange Backup & Restore
We are preparing our disaster recovery plan for our Exchange 2007. We have bought a identical machine to the first and now we need to create a plan to back it up and restore it quickly.
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| July 7, 2010 5:46 PM
Disaster Recovery, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 backup and recovery, Exchange Backup & Restore
exchange 2007 database back and restore on a offline backup server
Dear friends I m runing my single exchange 2007 with three roles(hub,edge,cas) with Win 2003 server. i also have two offline backup servers for exchage and Domain controller. on abckup servers i have restored the images of both my servers exch and domain controller by acronis true image and working fine. this method of restoring by Acronis is not [...]
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| May 24, 2010 12:39 PM
Backup and restore, Dell Poweredge 2950, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Offline Backup, Windows Server 2003
Dear friends I m runing my single exchange 2007 with three roles(hub,edge,cas) with Win 2003 server. i also have two offline backup servers for exchage and Domain controller. on abckup servers i have restored the images of both my servers exch and domain controller by acronis true image and working fine. this method of restoring by Acronis is not [...]
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| May 24, 2010 12:39 PM
Backup and restore, Dell Poweredge 2950, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Offline Backup, Windows Server 2003
What Backup/Restore product for exchange 2007 on win 2008 SE SP1?
We are cvurrently running a small Exchange Server 2007 (100 small mailboxes, < 1 GB total storage), hosted on a Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, Service Pack 1. Currently, we are drawing on a tool developed by Michael Smith (The Essential Exchange), which is configured for manual execution (and DIY restore scripting). We need to [...]
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| October 27, 2011 5:46 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server backup
We are cvurrently running a small Exchange Server 2007 (100 small mailboxes, < 1 GB total storage), hosted on a Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, Service Pack 1. Currently, we are drawing on a tool developed by Michael Smith (The Essential Exchange), which is configured for manual execution (and DIY restore scripting). We need to [...]
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| October 27, 2011 5:46 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server backup
Archiving Exchange 2007 in a SQL database
How do you set up an SQL database/server to receive and store archiving/journaling for exchange 2003/2007 email.
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| January 18, 2010 5:44 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, SQL Database
How do you set up an SQL database/server to receive and store archiving/journaling for exchange 2003/2007 email.
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| January 18, 2010 5:44 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, SQL Database
Recover an Exchange 2003 server after transition to 2007?
Is it possible to recover an Exchange 2003 server that’s been removed after moving over to 2007? I have some users that created folders in their inbox that were not affected by retention policy in 2003 but are now affected in 2007. The 2003 server has been completly removed, and I need to be able [...]
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| January 5, 2010 6:45 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore
Is it possible to recover an Exchange 2003 server that’s been removed after moving over to 2007? I have some users that created folders in their inbox that were not affected by retention policy in 2003 but are now affected in 2007. The 2003 server has been completly removed, and I need to be able [...]
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| January 5, 2010 6:45 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore
Exchange 2007 DR help
I am fairly new to Exchange, but I have successfully migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Now I am looking to set up my DR site with a backup exchange server and I would just like some verification that I am doing it correctly. What I have is an Exchange CAS/HUB/DB server and a [...]
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| September 11, 2012 3:54 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 disaster recovery, Exchange 2007 DR, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange Disaster Recovery
I am fairly new to Exchange, but I have successfully migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Now I am looking to set up my DR site with a backup exchange server and I would just like some verification that I am doing it correctly. What I have is an Exchange CAS/HUB/DB server and a [...]
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| September 11, 2012 3:54 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 disaster recovery, Exchange 2007 DR, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange Disaster Recovery
Recover Deleted Emails in Exchange 2003
Ok, I have a user who has Exchange 2003. The exchange properities in the storage do not delete for 180 days. The users rights however do not allow recovery after 0 days. Some people were fired and they deleted their emails within Outlook, but I am not sure if they did a hard or soft [...]
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| October 5, 2011 5:27 PM
Backup & recovery tools, Exchange 2003, Exchange Backup & Restore
Ok, I have a user who has Exchange 2003. The exchange properities in the storage do not delete for 180 days. The users rights however do not allow recovery after 0 days. Some people were fired and they deleted their emails within Outlook, but I am not sure if they did a hard or soft [...]
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| October 5, 2011 5:27 PM
Backup & recovery tools, Exchange 2003, Exchange Backup & Restore
Exchange 2003 Recovery
My company is a small non-profit which relies heavily on email and my fear is that of losing our Microsoft Exchange 2003 email server. Therefore, my goal is to have the necessary hardware in place along with procedures that would enable rapid recovery if our mail server goes belly up. Now I’ve read about the [...]
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| November 10, 2009 8:50 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 SP2, Exchange Backup & Restore, NTBackup, Recovery Storage Group
My company is a small non-profit which relies heavily on email and my fear is that of losing our Microsoft Exchange 2003 email server. Therefore, my goal is to have the necessary hardware in place along with procedures that would enable rapid recovery if our mail server goes belly up. Now I’ve read about the [...]
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| November 10, 2009 8:50 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 SP2, Exchange Backup & Restore, NTBackup, Recovery Storage Group
Event ID: 478
Hello all First I like to thank for your time I am new to IT field and I am administering small business exchange server. A few week ago the exchange server had a hard crash due to insufficient disk space. after I do some clean up I am not able to do back up in [...]
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| July 13, 2009 3:44 PM
Backup Exec, Event ID: 478, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange error messages, Exchange errors, Microsoft Small Business Server, NTBackup
Hello all First I like to thank for your time I am new to IT field and I am administering small business exchange server. A few week ago the exchange server had a hard crash due to insufficient disk space. after I do some clean up I am not able to do back up in [...]
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| July 13, 2009 3:44 PM
Backup Exec, Event ID: 478, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange error messages, Exchange errors, Microsoft Small Business Server, NTBackup
Restore a Single Email Message from 2+ years!
We have a legal request to restore an deleted email message from 2006. The user is still on the network currently, and I have looked in her mailbox, scanned for possbile .pst and archive files to no avail. The last administrator used NT Backup and I found a backup from 2005 that I would like [...]
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| June 15, 2009 2:21 PM
.PST files, Exchange 2003, Exchange Backup & Restore, NTBackup
We have a legal request to restore an deleted email message from 2006. The user is still on the network currently, and I have looked in her mailbox, scanned for possbile .pst and archive files to no avail. The last administrator used NT Backup and I found a backup from 2005 that I would like [...]
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| June 15, 2009 2:21 PM
.PST files, Exchange 2003, Exchange Backup & Restore, NTBackup
Image backup and ntbackup of exchange 2007
i m running a exch 2007 with winserver 2003. on DELL 2950 server A ,all things work fine, i have also taken image backup by Acronics software of the C drive of my exchange server A,this image has also been tested by restoring on another DELL server B of same specs which also work fine [...]
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| May 28, 2009 12:12 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Image Backup, NTBackup
i m running a exch 2007 with winserver 2003. on DELL 2950 server A ,all things work fine, i have also taken image backup by Acronics software of the C drive of my exchange server A,this image has also been tested by restoring on another DELL server B of same specs which also work fine [...]
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| May 28, 2009 12:12 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Image Backup, NTBackup
Error Message backing up public folders in Exchange 2003
I have recently installed Acronis Recovery for Exchange and it seems to work very well. However, the log contains hundreds of messages similar to “Error while reading the Public Folder//Database/name-68352703.EML message”. The referenced database is a contacts database and does not contain email. I would like to understand the error and fix it. Acronis help [...]
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| May 20, 2009 4:25 PM
Acronis Recover for Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore
I have recently installed Acronis Recovery for Exchange and it seems to work very well. However, the log contains hundreds of messages similar to “Error while reading the Public Folder//Database/name-68352703.EML message”. The referenced database is a contacts database and does not contain email. I would like to understand the error and fix it. Acronis help [...]
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| May 20, 2009 4:25 PM
Acronis Recover for Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore
Backing up Exchange database
I’m running Exchange Server 2003 on a 2003 Server. We have 2 storage groups totaling about 309G in size total. I’m trying to figure out the most effective and efficient way to back this up. We are trying to use Veame to accomplish this and I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how [...]
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| May 14, 2009 9:12 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore
I’m running Exchange Server 2003 on a 2003 Server. We have 2 storage groups totaling about 309G in size total. I’m trying to figure out the most effective and efficient way to back this up. We are trying to use Veame to accomplish this and I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how [...]
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| May 14, 2009 9:12 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore
Slow Exchange Store Backup using Veritas backup Exec
I am trying to backup exchange store using a remote agent and exchange module on veritas 9.1 backup for windows , It take more than 12 hrs to backup 40 GB store.
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| April 28, 2009 1:37 PM
Backup, Backup Exec, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange performance, Veritas Backup Exec, Veritas Backup Exec 9.1
I am trying to backup exchange store using a remote agent and exchange module on veritas 9.1 backup for windows , It take more than 12 hrs to backup 40 GB store.
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| April 28, 2009 1:37 PM
Backup, Backup Exec, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange performance, Veritas Backup Exec, Veritas Backup Exec 9.1
Test defrag of database in exchange 2007 sp1
We do not have a test environment and I would like to make a copy of the database on storage group 1 that needs to be defraged after all the mailbox moves to other storage groups/databases. Question: What is the best way to copy and move it without taking the email system down? Question: When [...]
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| February 1, 2012 1:56 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 SP1, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange databases
We do not have a test environment and I would like to make a copy of the database on storage group 1 that needs to be defraged after all the mailbox moves to other storage groups/databases. Question: What is the best way to copy and move it without taking the email system down? Question: When [...]
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| February 1, 2012 1:56 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 SP1, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange databases
LCR vs SCR
What are the main differences between LCR and SCR? I would like to replicate exchange data to provide high availability in case the main Exchange server fails or has an issue. What would be the failover procedure?
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| April 8, 2009 4:49 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange Disaster Recovery, LCR, SCR
What are the main differences between LCR and SCR? I would like to replicate exchange data to provide high availability in case the main Exchange server fails or has an issue. What would be the failover procedure?
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| April 8, 2009 4:49 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange Disaster Recovery, LCR, SCR
Exchange 2007 TSM GUI
After I installed the TSM Exchange TDP (Exchange 2007 CCR cluster) and tried to launch the GUI I got an error that the exchange server was unavailable. I did some digging and found out I had to launch the GUI from the tdp command line using tdpexc /excserver=exchangeservername on a clustered exchange server. On the [...]
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| April 21, 2009 4:32 PM
Backup software, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Tivoli Storage Manager
After I installed the TSM Exchange TDP (Exchange 2007 CCR cluster) and tried to launch the GUI I got an error that the exchange server was unavailable. I did some digging and found out I had to launch the GUI from the tdp command line using tdpexc /excserver=exchangeservername on a clustered exchange server. On the [...]
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| April 21, 2009 4:32 PM
Backup software, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Tivoli Storage Manager
