Exchange Mailboxes

[vickero007]

Currently our Veritas Backup Exec 8.6 attempts to backup the directories in the MBX directory on our exchange server. However that doesn't work and instead produces:

Access denied to directory \.
Error reading security data stream

Access denied to directory \OURDOMAIN.local
Error reading security data stream

And does the same for each directory below.

I can't check the "Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes" checkbox because when I do it asks for User Credentials but only allows the Mailbox Name to be written to. I have a unique mailbox that has been tested just for backup but it won't take it.

My backups are "failing" because of this. Any ideas?

-Volkoff007

 

[NortonES2]

You need to purchase the Backup Exec Exchange agent, then you can backup the information stores and also individual mailboxes if you wish.

 

[georgesz]

You may have actually caused a problem if you tried to back up the M: drive (the virtual IFS drive) when attempting to back it up at the file level. In some cases POP3 users may no longer be able to get new mail after you try to back up that drive. MAPI (Outlook) users should not be affected. If you do have this problem with some POP3 users, you need to export the mailbox (using Exmerge from Exchange 2000 SP3), then delete it, recreate it, and import the mailbox data back with Exmerge.

If you want to get a good backup of the Exchange 2000 databases without an Exchange agent, you need to dismount the Exchange databases, and get a flat file backup of the .EDB and .STM files while they are dismounted. If you stop the Information Store service, all databases will dismount automatically. Anyway, this will give you a reliable Exchange 2000 backup until you get an Exchange agent, which will back up Exchange online. By the way, as soon as you install any Exchange component on a server, it extends the windows backup API to back up Exchange online. So you could get a separate Windows backup for the Exchange storage group only. Perhaps you can run the Exchange backup to a BKF file (with NT backup), and then back up that file with Veritas.

Anyway, I am an Exchange guy, so I couldn't resist offering more detail.

Georgesz