Re: ARCserve brick level restore

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A slight clarification:

The entire Exchange Program Files folder is backed up in full, weekly.

Is that any better or...worse?

"Andy David - MVP" wrote:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:48:01 -0700, Ajay
<Ajay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We run a weekly full offline backup of the Exchange database files.

That's okay (though perhaps not great) isn't it?

No, its not ok if you arent doing online backups as well. THe
transaction logs will not get purged otherwise.


What I've read on numerous posts is that the built-in Exchange message
retention feature should be used for quick restoration of selected
files/folders.

Sure, and if you need to go to backup, the recovery storage group is
your friend.



"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:


"Ajay" <Ajay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0588D3A2-397B-42E2-8570-0FF3AC53569A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Everyone,

I've read plenty of reasons why brick level backups shouldn't be used, and
they are compelling...but they used where I am, and I need help with a
problem.

We run a daily, brick level backup of our Exchange 2003 server through an
agent. According to the logs for ARCserve 11.1 Build 3060 the data is
physically backed up to tape autoloader.

These are differential backup jobs that also backup files and folders from
that same (and other) servers.

As I understand it, the fact that this backup is set to differential
shouldn't matter as the brick level data isn't a file with an archive
attribute but information in the Exchange database. Is that correct?

Say if I delete a folder from within my Outlook mailbox using Outlook 2003
and then attempt to restore that file and its data, I get the folder back
but
not its contents.

I've checked with my restore options to make sure I have the folder and
the
INFO/MESSAGES within it selected. The restore job reports that data has
been
read from the media.

What could be the issue?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your time,

Ajay

You might contact CA for support on this.
(I sure hope you're also doing full online backups of Exchange in addition
to brick-level).




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