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Backups

Some Recent Articles

November 13, 2009

Here are some of the blog posts I’ve written for other sites in the the last few weeks.

Exchange Server 2007 Backup and Recovery

July 13, 2009

Read my five part series covering the fundamentals of Exchange Server 2007 backup and recovery. Learn how to backup each of the Exchange 2007 servers roles and then recover from common disaster scenarios.

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Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Announced

May 22, 2009

Microsoft has announced that Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2007 will be released in Q3 of this year. The MS Exchange Team has listed some of the key new features in their blog post here.
A welcome addition is the new volume snapshot backup plugin for Windows Server 2008. Currently Exchange Server 2007 cannot be [...]

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Event ID 9554 and Backup Exec 11d backup failures for Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Servers

December 2, 2008

You may encounter an issue with Backup Exec 11d performing backups of Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Servers using Granular Restore Technology (GRT) when the backup job is targeted at tape media.
The backup job fails with the following error:
Backup- \\SERVER.domain.local\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group V-79-57344-33928 – Access Denied. Cannot backup directory Mailbox Database and its [...]

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Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery (Book)

November 25, 2008

Dan lets us know that the book Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy written by local guru Preston De Guise is available now. The book is a platform-agnostic guide to comprehensive backup and recovery systems and should be compulsory reading for IT decision makers.
In the author’s own words:

Instead of focusing on any [...]

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Exchange Server 2007 replication problems can lead to backup issues

April 25, 2008

Exchange Server 2007 has some very useful replication features such as Local Continuous Replication (in RTM and SP1) and Standby Continuous Replication (in SP1 only). These features can provide nice and simple disaster recovery options by replicating your storage group logs and databases to another location, be it another disk/LUN with LCR or another [...]

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