Re: Exchange 2k SBS & M: drive

From: Monty Rodgers (n7cix_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/08/04 

Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:59:01 GMT

Thanks for the info Dan, I have a couple of more questions if I may.
You say "backup with the Exchange option in NTBackup" does this mean
using NTBackup then going to the "exchange server" directory and
choosing the "MBX and Calendar, rolladex etc" folders? If so, I did
try this and scheduled it for a backup to a new folder I created in a
different directory. Then the normal BackupExec would back up this
folder. This was last weekend, then stopping yesterday to verify that
all worked, the NTbackup would not touch the Exchange Server
directory. Creating a new backup and then starting it, it would
attempt to run then just quit, go back to the desktop. I verified
that NTbackup was still working as I created another job backing up a
different folder and it ran fine.
You also stated "buy a third party brick-level agent if you ever plan
to restore the data". Would it not be possible to do a restore with
the method that I was trying above by restoring the folders back to
the M drive? This all started when I was called and asked if I would
look at their problem of the Calendar loosing entries over the
weekend. This is a small attorney firm with 3-4 users and a SBS
server with exchange setup, (just a little overkill I think) but after
doing several hours of research I did manage to find a bit about
"Calendar loosing data" on the MS KB and using Nortons AV with a
scheduled (weekend) scan and the Calendar loosing data after the scan.
(have to turn OFF the scan to the M: drive = a known problem). Will
find out tomorrow if that did the trick.
Again Thanks for the help, as you can tell, this is my first outing
with SBS/Exchange although I use NT4/Exchange 5.5 on several servers
but surely not the same.

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 23:46:02 -0600, "Dan Townsend [MSFT]"
<dtown@online.microsoft.com> wrote:

>You should not touch the M drive...
>
>Backup with the Exchange option in NTBackup (free) or use Exmerge (free) or
>buy a third party brick-level agent if you ever plan to restore the data.
>
>We removed "M" in 2003 because it has caused nothing but problems. It was
>only there for people to access the database in an easier way for coding.

Monty D. Rodgers N7CIX
Phoenix, AZ 85053
n7cixREMOVE@cox.net
http://members.cox.net/montyd
 

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