Exchange 5.5 backup procedure?

[bdoub1eu]

First let me say how much I appreciate your information and experience...This site has been extremely helpful...

I have inherited the Exchange position with our company and was wondering about the backup procedure for this...We do have a tape drive but it is on another server other than our Exchange server...

It appears that the previous admin was using the ntbackup.exe in a .bat script to perform a backup of the Exchange info...It is as follows:

C:\WINNT\system32\NTBACKUP.EXE backup /f "Location to place the backup" /ds "ServerName" /is "ServerName" /v:no /r:no /m normal /j "ServerName Backup.job" /l:f

It appears to work, but I wanted to make sure we were getting all the information we needed...I don't believe the .bkf it creates has ever been tested...Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks in advance!

 

[zbnet]

Find and read the Exchange 5.5 Disaster Recovery Whitepaper on the Microsoft website. If you are responsible for backing up and restoring Exchange in the event of a DR, you need to know the information in this paper.

Afterwards, you'll know enough to test your backup.