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Backup/Restore of Exchange 2003 Servers

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Hey All,

Have a few questions regarding the backup/recovery of an Exchange Server 2003. I'm confused.....

1. Using BR10 Advanced Server with AR for Exchange. Will I have to stop the exchange services via a batch file to get my backup of the OS to be in the correct state for recovery. Reading the manual I dont think so for the exchange dbases...

2. When I do the backup of the os, do I excluded the Exchange Dbases?

3. My goal in this is to do a bare bones restore in the quickest time.

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john

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Hello Glenn Bowers,

Thank you for your post. I will be happy to assist you.

If you are planning to use Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 Advanced Server for backing up only your operating system, there is no need to stop the exchange services. You can provide the filepath for your database folder in the exclusion options and run the backup. After that, you can use Acronis Recovery for Exchange to backup your database separately.

There is another way, where you can use only Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 Advanced Server to backup your operating system and your Exchange database. For that, you will need to enable 2 options. Volume Shadow Copy and Multi Volume Snapshot. I have attached 2 screenshots to my post that show these options. Feel free to check the following article for additional information.

If you have any other questions, please let me know.

Thank you.

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Anton, thank you for the quick response. Another question:

1. Using your option 1, Do I use vss option as seen in your vss.jpg attachjemnet to backup the OS? My goal here is to be able to do a bare bones restore.

v/r
john

Hello Glenn!

Thank you for your question!

In case you are backing up your machine without including the database, then there is no need in enabling VSS.

VSS provides our product with the access to the database services so that we could automatically suspend them on the moment of creation of snapshot, and start them again as soon as snapshot is taken. It allows you to backup the machine without batch files.

Should you backup the entire machine with the database running on it, you will have to enable VSS. Otherwise the database in the image may be reported to be corrupted.

VSS definitely doesn't play role in the bare metal recovery ability, since it is used only when a user needs access to the database services. Should you exclude Exchange db, not VSS enabling is requiered.

Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!

Thank you!