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I am in the planning stages of performing an offline backup and defrag. I am going through the steps of KB article 296788 <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=296788" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=296788</a>, step 5 of the offline backup states that if you have circular logging disabled you should backup the numbered transaction logs. <br />
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Can I do a full backup prior that would flush the transaction logs, and not have to do this step? Of course I would verifying that there no transaction logs after the full backup.<br />
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Exchange 2000 SP4<br />
Veritas 10.1<br />
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Thank you,<br />
Tricia<br />
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I am in the planning stages of performing an offline backup and defrag. I am going through the steps of KB article 296788 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=296788, step 5 of the offline backup states that if you have circular logging disabled you should backup the numbered transaction logs. 

Can I do a full backup prior that would flush the transaction logs, and not have to do this step? Of course I would verifying that there no transaction logs after the full backup.

Exchange 2000 SP4
Veritas 10.1

Thank you,
Tricia



Offline backup/Circular Logging Disabled/Transaction Logs

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