Exchange / Back up ??

SBS2000

Can someone confirm that the exchange services should be
stopped prior and during the daily back up. If so, can
those services be scheduled to stop before the back up
takes place?

Thanks,

Mike

Marina
Thu Sep 11 16:28:51 CDT 2003

No need to if you use Exchange-aware backup. NTBackup is Exchange-aware and
will handle this very well.

Marina

"Mike" <spyder3@comcast.net> schreef in bericht
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> SBS2000
>
> Can someone confirm that the exchange services should be
> stopped prior and during the daily back up. If so, can
> those services be scheduled to stop before the back up
> takes place?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike

David
Thu Sep 11 16:51:36 CDT 2003

Mike,

The difference here is between what we would refer to as an online backup
versus an offline backup.. If you use NTBackup it is able to do a backup of
the Exchange database while Exchange is running.. If the backup program you
are using is not Exchange aware then you would probably want to stop
Exchange before doing the backup so that a) the databases/logs are not in
use.. However, by doing an offline backup the log files are not removed
like they should be when doing an online backup.. Which may lead to a large
amount of diskspace being used uneccessarily..


--

Hope that helps,
David Copeland
Microsoft Small Business Server Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"Marina Roos" <marina@roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com> wrote in message
news:nO58b.99457$506.101492@typhoon.bart.nl...
> No need to if you use Exchange-aware backup. NTBackup is Exchange-aware
and
> will handle this very well.
>
> Marina
>
> "Mike" <spyder3@comcast.net> schreef in bericht
> news:054201c3789f$e7cd9910$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> > SBS2000
> >
> > Can someone confirm that the exchange services should be
> > stopped prior and during the daily back up. If so, can
> > those services be scheduled to stop before the back up
> > takes place?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
>
>

Mike
Fri Sep 12 07:23:08 CDT 2003

Thanks for the help. I am using the NTBackup also.


>-----Original Message-----
>Mike,
>
>The difference here is between what we would refer to as
an online backup
>versus an offline backup.. If you use NTBackup it is able
to do a backup of
>the Exchange database while Exchange is running.. If the
backup program you
>are using is not Exchange aware then you would probably
want to stop
>Exchange before doing the backup so that a) the
databases/logs are not in
>use.. However, by doing an offline backup the log files
are not removed
>like they should be when doing an online backup.. Which
may lead to a large
>amount of diskspace being used uneccessarily..
>
>
>--
>
>Hope that helps,
>David Copeland
>Microsoft Small Business Server Support
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>
>
>"Marina Roos" <marina@roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com> wrote
in message
>news:nO58b.99457$506.101492@typhoon.bart.nl...
>> No need to if you use Exchange-aware backup. NTBackup
is Exchange-aware
>and
>> will handle this very well.
>>
>> Marina
>>
>> "Mike" <spyder3@comcast.net> schreef in bericht
>> news:054201c3789f$e7cd9910$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> > SBS2000
>> >
>> > Can someone confirm that the exchange services should
be
>> > stopped prior and during the daily back up. If so, can
>> > those services be scheduled to stop before the back up
>> > takes place?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Mike
>>
>>
>
>
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