Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1

Overview

In Chapter 15, "Reliability and Availability 101," we talked about some of the most important things an Exchange administrator does on a daily basis. At the top of the list (well, very nearly the top) is ensuring that you provide good availability to your user community. However, at the very top of the list is providing good recoverability.

If you do a Google search for "disaster recovery" or "backup software" for Exchange, you will end up with literally thousands of hits. Many of them will be discussing third-party software products, tools, utilities, and hardware technology that helps you to perform backups of your Exchange data.

While there are many good products on the market that can assist you in recovering from any number of problems with Exchange, we recommend that you evaluate these products against your recovery requirements rather than simply looking at the bells and whistles of the software.

There are far too many backup software packages for us to provide you with procedures for each, so we will be using the standard Windows Backup utility in our instructions. Many of the concepts and skills you learn simply using the Windows Backup utility will carry over to other backup products.

In this chapter, we will not only provide you with procedures for backing up and restoring Exchange databases, we will help you to develop backup procedures that are sufficient for your organization.

Topics in this chapter include the following:

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