RIght now, I'm backing up the vmserver every night as a precautionary measure. There are several problems with using the built in backup but my main problem with it is that its a whole server or nothing deal. Disk storage is cheap these days but tape storage isnt and in our case the 26GB saved is valuable. Restoring into a recovery group isnt a bad thing really.
Yea, I agree - whole server or nothing. Plus restoring into a recovery group is a is a lot of steps just to retrieve a calendar event deleted or an email - but, I guess you get what you pay for!
To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Adam CodeTwo. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Many thanks in advance. Popular Topics in Microsoft Exchange. It allows backup and restore from a large scale to small — both individual mailboxes and entire server environments.
Further, the backups can be made and restored from almost any platform due to the image-based design of Acronis' technology. Download Free Trial. ShadowProtect is a powerful backup tool which has a broad ability to search, manipulate, and of course backup and restore, EDB files.
It can recover anything from individual or bulk mailboxes, to individual messages, to attachments, calendar items, notes, tasks, and more — and even can do so offline! The base software is somewhat limited in regards to its granularity but, fortunately, they do offer a separate installation for ShadowProtect GRE — Granular Recovery for Exchange. This part of ShadowProtect is not installed on the Exchange Server itself, however, and must be installed on a client system running Outlook, from where it will access and handle EDB files.
This can be both a pro and a con, but ultimately it means the software gains some flexibility in some situations but can also lose out in others, it totally depends on your environment and circumstance. None the less, the GRE offering gives you a great deal more power and control with manipulating, searching, and managing your databases for recovery situations. Backup Exec is more of a generalized all-around backup solution and can be a little cumbersome for Exchange-specific needs; none the less, all it requires is to install an agent for interfacing with Exchange in order to get it communicating and working with the Exchange server for your backup needs!
In brief, it can handle backups for virtual and non virtual environments, application databases, as well as Microsoft and Linux based machines, and easily handles backing up onto a variety of media.
But, more to the point of its Exchange capabilities, it can backup utilizing VSS and has some powerful consistency and redundancy checks built into its features. Since it is geared more to an overall backup solution some of the granularity is missing versus programs more specifically geared, but it can still restore and backup individual mailboxes, manage backups via local or cloud storage, and perform both incremental and full backups and restorations. Price: Must contact for pricing, Exchange agent has separate license costs as well per server.
Veeam has some excellent built-in tools for backing up and restoring parts of your virtualized environments. When running Exchange servers with a virtual environment you have a lot more flexibility than dealing with a physical server — but by the same merit, being virtualized means that it can be startlingly easy to lose everything if you aren't careful and absent-mindedly re-image or simply click the wrong VM state.
Thankfully, virtualization management software like Veeam often has a lot of backup abilities included. And to make restore even faster, you get to choose which mailbox to restore and what date ranges of items to restore from. BackupAssist will make the sale much easier not only because of the price tag, but because we KNOW that it works so well. I wanted to use backup rotation, but wasn't sure how and when I found that BackupAssist managed it all for me, as well as doing the SQL and Exchange backups it was an immediate decision to buy.
Great software. It's an excellent product, and I do like the emailed logs as it allows me to remotely check progress. I'm sure you are aware of the difficulties you can have with backing up and restoring this email server. We threw all we could at a test mail server, even to the point of crashing it, and your backup software restored it all to its original glory. Good job my friend. Just ordered it from the site.
Very exciting piece of software. All rights reserved. Toggle navigation. Reseller Login. Exchange Server Backup Software with fast Mailbox level backup and easy recovery How to quickly setup your Exchange Server Backup Software for fast backup and easy recovery.
Exchange Server Database backup The first involves the backup of the entire Exchange Server Information Store and Exchange Storage groups, which can be very useful when System Administrators like you perform a full restore of Exchange Selecting Individual mailboxes in Exchange Server for backup. It is important to consider the following questions when choosing the right Exchange Server backup software - do you and your organization want: Simple setup and scheduling of Exchange database backup for complete Exchange Server restoration?
Easy to follow instructions and backup result sent to you by email? It is my job, and Handy Backup allows me to do it very quickly and reliable. Big thanks! Version 8. This powerful solution for a single machine allows your Windows Server backup Exchange data automatically, quickly and easily, just out of the box!
To save the mailbox database with an automatic backup task , please use this instruction:. You may want to create an auto recovery task when you need to make Exchange restore mailbox from backup. This is as simple as backup task. Current version of Handy Backup allows you to restore Exchange mailbox database to its original location only.
This restriction is a result of Exchange internal architecture, and is not a Handy Backup flaw. Still, our Development Team works to avoid this restriction later. Experience how easy is to backup Exchange with Handy Backup!
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