Hello folks
Please can anyone point me to how you schedule a daily back up of all email on MS exchange on 2003 SBS server.
Our old contractor has canceled the setup and we need to re start this.

Also, if I could please ask, once backed up, where to they get sent to as we need to copy these files onto the new NAS device.

Funnier still is the out going tech deleted exmerge so we now have to reinstall this file without shutting down... happy days for sure.

My head hurts, but I really need your input folks... sits back and tries to relax...

Regards

mr.pomps

What software are you using for a backup?
Are you performing a disk to disk, disk to tape or disk to disk to tape backup?
Does your backup software perform mailbox level backups or does it perform Information Store backups only?
What is your backup scheme? Daily fulls? Incrementals?
Does the backup automatically commit and clean up the Exchange Logs after a backup? What is your Exchange Log policy? IE. Are you using circular logging?

Does your Exchange IS reside on a SAN?
Is your SAN capable of performing snapshots?

One more thing... ExMerge is part of the Exchange Support Tools which you can download from Microsoft.


And I am also dyslexic... I misread NAS (network attached storage) as SAN (storage area network)... big difference.

Microsoft does not support Exchange 2003 and NAS together and does not recommend it with Exchange 2008. We use Exchange with an EqualLogic SAN and am quite happy with it.

Note: I have not use the NTBackup since the NT 4.0 and Exchange 5.5 days but it is still there if that is what you must use. Go to a command prompt on the Exchange server and run NTBACKUP. It is more robust than the old NT 4 version. You must run it on a machine with the Exchange System Manager installed before it exposes the Exchange backup/restore capabilities. You can select wish Storage Group you wich to backup.