Re: Backup solution question

From: Frank McCallister SBS MVP (anonymous)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:01:47 -0600

Hi Terry and TK

What TK says is correct on taking Backups offsite however he is wrong on
Exchange not Backing up to Hard drive. If SBS Wizard is used to Backup to
External Hard Drive it is Exchange aware and you will get a complete
restorable backup. USB or Removable Hard Drive enclosures are a low cost way
of rotating Hard drives to provide off-site storage, however Tape is still
the preferred Medium 

-- 
Frank McCallister SBS MVP
COMPUMAC
"MTBoxTech" <terry@removethis.mtboxcomputers.com> wrote in message 
news:O90WGlq5EHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> "susan" wrote:
>> Implementing new server in a small business environment (10-12 
>> users)...SBS
>> Std. edition...
>> Nothing fancy, mainly just a file/print server. Will not even bring email 
>> in
>> house for a few months, but will do so eventually.
>>
>> Question: would a external hard drive be okay for backups instead of a 
>> tape
>> drive? Anybody know of issues related to that -- especially ability to
>> restore?
>
>
> You should consider many things when planning your 
> backups/restores/disaster recover.  One of them is the ability to keep 
> your backups offsite.  A hard drive will not give you that ability unless 
> you have multiples and are taking them offsite regularly.  Also, Exchange 
> will not backup to HDD unless you are doing offline backups (essentially 
> just the files w/ Exchange offline).  For general - nothing fancy, get the 
> job done - backups I would suggest a tape drive with a four-week tape 
> rotation and an end-of-month tape for each month of the year as well as an 
> end-of-year tape.
>
> -TK
> M/T Box Computers
>

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