> i need to update a exchange server, which is not the problem. > > But i have to backup the server in a way that i can restore single mail > accounts, or, what will be better, restore a single mail. > In commmercial products you can get a plugin to backup and restore so > called bricks in Exchange.
A brick level backup is one of those things that all commercial backup products seem to do, but all acknowledge as being a bad idea. It is slow, error prone, and you really need a full copy of the database anyway so you end up with double the data. Only a few days ago someone was complaining that the server in the office was going slow, and I checked and at 10am the backup (Veritas Backup Exec) was still running. The backup included a database backup and a brick level backup of our Exchange server. The entire backup was taking 12 hours, 8 hours of which was spent performing a brick level backup of the Exchange server. The other 4 hours was spent doing the exchange database backup (15gb), filesystem backup (~25gb) and SQL database backups (~3gb). > Anybody has a solution how to do the same thing with bacula? I have never ever tried this, but it _may_ be possible to swing it somehow via the M: drive that Exchange 2000 seems to create and is a filesystem mapping of the Exchange database. I'm not sure if Exchange 2003 includes such a thing though. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
