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I'm looking at some options on Backup Programs for our Network, currently we're using a mixture of products including Symantec Backup Exec, NTbackup, and livevault (online based service). I'd like to consolidate but keen livevault around for offsite backup.

Also if anyone has some advice on backing up Exchange i'm curious what people think about differential/incremental, i've had more sucess with doing full backups and recycling media between two drives/ multiple tapes.

What i need is something that will work well in backing up to external HDD's, and backup an exchange server well. My first thought is Backup Exec, but looking at all angles.

Glenn Abelson

Backup Exec remains a good choice because it has the largest market share, works - sometimes with tweaking, and has a tremendous amount of free support around.

I never use the BE add on for backing up individual mailboxes since I implemented this, automatically with Exmerge. http://www.petri.co.il/brick_level_backup_of_mailboxes_by_using_exmerge.htm

PUNKY

No doubt on Backup Exec, but I have been using the Arconis product that works very good:

http://www.acronis.com/

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cgordon81

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KCTS, can you give me some links to some websites on the acronis software your mentioning, and also if you know anything about the the exchange agent for backup exec and how well it works (does it only do mailbox by mailbox, i thought with exchange the best practice was to backup the whole store, correct me if i'm wrong)

Chris