Re: SBS Backup Wizard -Exchange Stores-

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From: Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP] (les.connor_at_DEL.cfive.ca)
Date: 02/07/05


Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:11:18 -0600

It might not be a good 'by design'.

How about if you move your Exchange data to some location that's not
<drive>\Program Files, such as d:\Exchsrvr. Then perhaps the wizard will let
you exclude it.

Do you see any problems with this approach?

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Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
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"Kevin Weilbacher" <kweilbacMVP@gte.net> wrote in message 
news:%23q1q1JTDFHA.1012@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> The SBS backup process, which essentially backs up Exchange twice, is by 
> design.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
> "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
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>
>
> "Steve" <Steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:905AC934-2478-40BF-A19C-2A3CD48782BF@microsoft.com...
>> The SBS Backup Wizard allows me to exclude files in the backup routine.
>>
>> The backup logs tells me that the MDBDATA folders are backed up, then 
>> does a
>> backup routine for the information stores. This doubles the size of my 
>> backup
>> files. Seems to me as over-kill, especially since by backup media is 
>> limited.
>>
>> Can I, or Do I want to exclude the MDBDATA folder, or Priv1/Pub1 files, 
>> in
>> the wizard?
>>
>
> 


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