Exchange Back up

While I am awaiting a long hard decision off the Company Boss to purchased
the advised third party back up software can anyone let me know what is the
best way to handle the log files in exchange until the software looks after
it for me? I believe the native back up does not purge the logs or have I
missed something here?

Maurice

Mariette
Mon Sep 01 16:45:26 CDT 2003

In news:cTO4b.1252$MQ1.1094@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk,
Maurice <maurice@ilikesbs.com> wrote:

> While I am awaiting a long hard decision off the Company Boss to
> purchased the advised third party back up software can anyone let me
> know what is the best way to handle the log files in exchange until
> the software looks after it for me? I believe the native back up does
> not purge the logs or have I missed something here?

NTBackup purges the log files just fine. Do a backup to a hard drive and the
logs will be flushed.
--
Mariette Knap [SBS MVP]
www.smallbizserver.net

Maurice
Mon Sep 01 16:52:56 CDT 2003

OK will try this out. is there a check box or something to check or does it
do it auto?

Maurice


"Mariette Knap [SBS MVP]" <mariette@smallbizserver.net> wrote in message
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> In news:cTO4b.1252$MQ1.1094@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk,
> Maurice <maurice@ilikesbs.com> wrote:
>
> > While I am awaiting a long hard decision off the Company Boss to
> > purchased the advised third party back up software can anyone let me
> > know what is the best way to handle the log files in exchange until
> > the software looks after it for me? I believe the native back up does
> > not purge the logs or have I missed something here?
>
> NTBackup purges the log files just fine. Do a backup to a hard drive and
the
> logs will be flushed.
> --
> Mariette Knap [SBS MVP]
> www.smallbizserver.net
>
>

Mariette
Mon Sep 01 17:10:48 CDT 2003

In news:RgP4b.1520$MQ1.1331@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk,
Maurice <maurice@ilikesbs.com> wrote:

> OK will try this out. is there a check box or something to check or
> does it do it auto?

When you select the information store (not the files on disk) it will flush
the logs.

How to backup your SBS 2000 server.:
http://www.smallbizserver.net/SBS2000/How_do_I_backup_my_server.aspx

--
Mariette Knap [SBS MVP]
www.smallbizserver.net