Re: PST & OST

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From: Carel (globalnci_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:59:30 -0700

We are using an exchange server. I was just contemplating weather it is
worth to have the Exchange server store the files in a PST or leave it as
OST.

Last week when the Exchange databases got corrupted we tried to
restore/repair the databases. That did not work so we tried to restore from
the last SBS Backup Wizard. The file would not mount saying something about
not being recognized by NT Backup.

So I had to recreate the store & mailboxes. There most users lost thier old
emails.

Thanks everyone.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Carel wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> What are the advantage of using PST folders to store your email
>> rather than the default OST?
>
> OST files are just copies of the mailbox and can't be used independently
> of
> the mail profile/mailbox for which they were set up. You can set up
> Outlook
> to store data in the Exchange server mailbox or in a local PST. I would
> never recommend the latter. Don't see any real need to set up users with
> OST
> files (offline copies of their mailboxes) on a LAN - although OL2003 in
> cached mode has a lot of useful benefits.
>>
>> I am worried about this because when we use OST and we restore a
>> corrupt email database on an SBS server or recreate the stores and
>> create the mailboxes again. It starts a new .ost file for each user
>> and this causes them to lose all email on their client machines
>> before the restore?
>
> I must ask, how often are you doing this, and why? Make sure you have a
> solid server build that isn't prone to crashes - and make sure you have
> nightly good online backups. I can't think of any reasons why what you
> describe (restoring dbs, etc) would need to be done regularly unless your
> server was not built right or was built on inadequate hardware.....
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>
>

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