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What backup for Exchange 2007?
Hi experts! I am reading http://blogs.msdn.com/douggowans/archive/2007/10/16/backup-solutions-for-exchange-2007.aspx and trying to evaluate what backup will be best for us. Our Exchange 2007 SP1 is hosted on a 2008 server. We have only about 50 mailboxes.
I am asking myself if it would be a simple solution for us to do the following: During nighttime, the server is not needed. I would suspend all the exchange services, take a scheduled image (drive snapshot) of the partition where the database is on to be written to a network share and restart the services afterwards. I already tried and the restore worked perfectly.
My only problem: what about the transaction logs? They are growing and I am aware that they are meant to be deleted only after a database backup that is "exchange aware". Should I delete them after producing the image?
If that does not seem to be a good idea, please recommend a way for comfortable backup (to a network location) and restore at the given scenario.
I am asking myself if it would be a simple solution for us to do the following: During nighttime, the server is not needed. I would suspend all the exchange services, take a scheduled image (drive snapshot) of the partition where the database is on to be written to a network share and restart the services afterwards. I already tried and the restore worked perfectly.
My only problem: what about the transaction logs? They are growing and I am aware that they are meant to be deleted only after a database backup that is "exchange aware". Should I delete them after producing the image?
If that does not seem to be a good idea, please recommend a way for comfortable backup (to a network location) and restore at the given scenario.
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Hi,
You can go ahead and delete all, and keep the ones of last day and day before (last day) ie last 2days.
Log files of 1-2 days in your scenario would not be too much.
Hope it is clear
Thanks
You can go ahead and delete all, and keep the ones of last day and day before (last day) ie last 2days.
Log files of 1-2 days in your scenario would not be too much.
Hope it is clear
Thanks
ASKER
Since noone else has objected I suppose it's ok to proceed like this. Thank you.
Hi,
Any specific reason why you felt that the solution was not a good one. "B" grade ?
Thanks
Nitin
Any specific reason why you felt that the solution was not a good one. "B" grade ?
Thanks
Nitin
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It was a good one. B means good, A is excellent.
1 "...delete the log files (make sure not the latest ones and the assigned ones)" - which are "the latest ones"? The logs just for today are the following:
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21.07.2008 00:04 1.048.576 E0000000E28.log
21.07.2008 01:01 1.048.576 E0000000E29.log
21.07.2008 02:00 1.048.576 E0000000E2A.log
21.07.2008 02:20 1.048.576 E0000000E2B.log
21.07.2008 03:01 1.048.576 E0000000E2C.log
21.07.2008 04:07 1.048.576 E0000000E2D.log
21.07.2008 04:22 1.048.576 E0000000E2E.log
21.07.2008 09:00 1.048.576 E0000000E2F.log
21.07.2008 09:15 1.048.576 E0000000E30.log
21.07.2008 09:30 1.048.576 E0000000E31.log
21.07.2008 10:02 1.048.576 E0000000E32.log
21.07.2008 10:26 1.048.576 E0000000E33.log
21.07.2008 10:41 1.048.576 E0000000E34.log
21.07.2008 10:57 1.048.576 E0000000E35.log
21.07.2008 11:12 1.048.576 E0000000E36.log
21.07.2008 11:30 1.048.576 E0000000E37.log
21.07.2008 11:45 1.048.576 E0000000E38.log
21.07.2008 12:00 1.048.576 E0000000E39.log
21.07.2008 13:13 1.048.576 E0000000E3A.log
21.07.2008 13:47 1.048.576 E0000000E3B.log
21.07.2008 14:02 1.048.576 E0000000E3C.log
as well as an E00.log and an E00tmp.log datest the most recent (14:02)
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2 Not possible: NTbackup is nop longer a part of 2008 server. Windows (2008)complete pc backup is officially not exchange aware.
3 LCR could be an idea but it is no real backup and has to use ISCSI if we would like the replica to be on the network
4 no solution for us, we will not add another server
So 1 seems ok to me. What logfiles to keep/delete?