Arcserve 2000 + Exchange Brick Level Backup

[mrperty]

Don't feel i'm getting good clean backup of Exchange 5.5 server. Am choosing all drives within Arcserve source including folder Microsoft Exchange Server + Microsoft Exchange Server - Brick level. When backup completes logfile has no record of each mailbox being backed up separately. Correct Security has been chosen in order to backup exchange. Any ideas.

 

[vschumpy]

If you do a 'full green' backup of the server - brick level is skipped - you'll also get a message in the log along the lines of 'Brick-level backup is unavailable in a full system backup'.

 

[mrperty]

Thanks for your response. Does this mean that I cannot do a full system backup and brick-level backup of exchange 5.5 server in 1 backup job. If this is the case how would I get around it.

 

[speshalyst]

Hi,
When you do a FULL green backup of the exchange server, the backup is considered to be a preparatory backup for DR and thus the Brick level is skipped because it would not be of use in a DR scenario.

If you want to workaround this situation, expand brick level,individual mailboxes, deselect a mailbox and select it again... meaning you a are making the job static... half green.....

If you do not want a static job, the only way out is to run 2 different jobs..


hope this helps

Cheers
Speshalyst

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[mrperty]

Excellent Speshalyst.. Thanks for all your help