Re: how to take a exchange 2003 backup

[Mark Arnold [MVP]]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:06:01 -0700, mohammad ali
<moham...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>hi ,
>
>i have an exchange server 2003 with sp1, i have taken an backup of mail
>stores through NTBACKUP in my lab for experiment but when i remove exchnage
>and reinstall it and then i restore the backup its not working , i use all
>the steps for taking up the backups but still i am not successfull in
>restoring the backup ,
>can any body tell me the proper configuration of backingup and restoring the
>exchange or any third party software for exchange backup i will be very
>thankfull to u.
>

Rebuild the server again and do a backup. Then restore that backup
into the Recovery Storage Group (read about that at
www.microsoft.com/exchange/library) to test your backup.

That will restore the backup into a separate place on your exchange
server without dismounting or doing anything to the store (i'm
assuming the whole thing is in the lab right now?)

Using ntbackup should be all you need, but see also the DR guide (link
as above) and see if you're doing anything differently from that
described in the documentaion.

[Kirill Palagin]

mohammad ali wrote:

> hi ,
>
> i have an exchange server 2003 with sp1, i have taken an backup of mail
> stores through NTBACKUP in my lab for experiment but when i remove exchnage
> and reinstall it and then i restore the backup its not working , i use all
> the steps for taking up the backups but still i am not successfull in
> restoring the backup ,

Any error messages?

>
> can any body tell me the proper configuration of backingup and restoring the
> exchange or any third party software for exchange backup i will be very
> thankfull to u.
>

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