Brick Level v.s. Information Store Backup 1

[shanejfminc]

I need to know the differences between the brick level and info store backup. Are there any consequences to one or the other? Is there a time diference in backup? What about restore? I kno wwell enough not to backup the M:/, but I am concerned one of these two types of backups may casued databse corruption.

 

[DebiJo]

I have experienced no corruption with either Brick Level or Store backups. Brick Levels are VERY slow. On occasion the Store backup was slow. I had to stop/start the backup client agent on the Exchange server every day. That helped. Then going to V9 helped tremendously.

Brick Level:
Backs up each mailbox indivdually. This allows restores of individual mailboxes. Cannot use this as disaster recovery.

Store:
Backs up the store as a whole. Individual mailbox restores are not possible. This can be used for disaster recovery.

I no longer do Brick Level's. We purchased Power Controls a while back. I added the open file mananger to our Exchange server and changed the registry key to back up the exchange files. When we need a box restored, I'll restore the files and use Power Controls for the actual mailbox restore. On occassion I still have to go back to the Store backup. So I do them both each night in full. We have about a 50 gig Exchange database and the time to do a full backup is not an issue.

Debi

 

[RubenZ]

Hi,

we also backup only the IS and for restore we've bought Ontrack - Power Controls, too.

We're happy with this restore tool. It works good!

RubenZ