Re: SBS 2003 and Exchange Backup

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Larry Struckmeyer <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-wizards(dot)com> wrote:
In addition to what LW said... (especially the part about using the
wizards), if you have room run a backup to your hard drive or to a
mapped drive. This will clear out your logs and free up all that
space. Better would be an external USB 2.0 (not USB 1), Firewire or
ESATA drive. This would let you take it out of the building.

Some users run the SBS backup to their local drive, or a spare drive
in the computer, then copy the backup to the tape or the external
drive. This usually will allow the backup to finish sooner, and the
subsequent copy is not as resource intensive.

When you step through the backup wiz in Server Management it will ask
you where to store the backup and how many to keep if directed to non
removable media.

Be sure to exclude the drive/folder you are backing up to. ( I hate
that phrase, and also the more correct "to which you are backing up"
or any variation thereof. Cumbersome. LW can you suggest a better
way to say backing up to?)


"That is something up with which I will not put."

;-)

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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adi <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello everyone,

I need some help with backing up my SBS 2003 and the Exchange server
running on it.

I started working for a company and noticed that there are a lot of
log files in the mdbdata folder.

Basically no back up has been done for more than a year.

Ouch. What hardware (type & specific make/model) do they have to do
the backups to?

I have always used Veritas in the past but this time this is not an
option. I have to use the NT Backup to back up all data, system
state and Exchange.

SBSBackup sits on top of NTBackup and will do this - I suggest you
use it rather than going straight to NTBackup unless you've got a
script or wrapper you already wrote for it that does more than the
basics.

My problem is that I don't have a clue where to start from.

As with everything else in this bundle, you need to use the wizards.
Go to Server Management and click on Backups.


Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Also every time I try to do a simple back up it is asking for a
specific media which I don't have. I have inherited 5 tapes. How can
I erase and reuse them again?

Use SBSBackup - it will do this.

Do you also have a cleaning tape?

I suggest you start doing some reading up on SBS admin & its myriad
wizards - if you don't do things its way, it will make you sad.



Many thanks.

Andy



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