Graham Keeling wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:46:40PM +0200, Torsten Maus wrote:
>
>> I configured the client and job in backup, than I specified the fileset which
>> looks like this:
>>
>>
>> FileSet {
>> Name = "exchange"
>> Enable VSS = no
>> Include {
>> File = C:/Program Files/Microsoft/Exchange Server/Mailbox
>> Plugin = "exchange:@EXCHANGE/Microsoft Information Store"
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> Exclude {
>>
>>
>> File = C:/Program Files/Microsoft/Exchange Server/Mailbox/First Storage
>> Group/Mailbox/E00.chk
>>
>>
>> File = C:/Program Files/Microsoft/Exchange Server/Mailbox/First Storage
>> Group/Mailbox/E00.log
>>
>>
>> File = C:/Program Files/Microsoft/Exchange Server/Mailbox/First Storage
>> Group/Mailbox/E000000F.log
>>
>>
>> File = C:/Program Files/Microsoft/Exchange Server/Mailbox/First Storage
>> Group/Mailbox/E0000010.log
>>
>>
>> File = C:/Program Files/Microsoft/Exchange Server/Mailbox/First Storage
>> Group/Mailbox/E0000011.log
>>
>>
>> File = C:/Program Files/Microsoft/Exchange Server/Mailbox/First Storage
>> Group/Mailbox/E00tmp.log
>>
>>
>> File = C:/Program Files/Microsoft/Exchange Server/Mailbox/First Storage
>> Group/Mailbox/priv1.edb
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I swichted off VSS because I red in an other mail comment on the list, that
>> VSS
>> should be disabled, or at least it makes it easier to identify whether the
>> exchange plugin is working or not.
>>
>> So but if I run the job the plugin does nothing, because in the report
>> E-Mails I
>> red:
>>
>> 29-Sep 13:45 exchange-fd JobId 19648: Cannot open "C:/Program
>> Files/Microsoft/Exchange Server/Mailbox/First Storage Group/Mailbox
>> Database.edb": ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being
>> used
>> by another process.
>>
>> I do not know what I did wrong, or where is my mistake, helpfully you can
>> help
>> me because I am quite frustrated.
>>
>
> This is what the fileset that I've been using looks like:
>
> FileSet {
> Name = "Windows Exchange Server data"
> Ignore FileSet Changes = yes
> Include {
> Options {
> signature = MD5
> compression = GZIP9
> IgnoreCase = yes
> }
> Plugin = "exchange:/@EXCHANGE/Microsoft Information Store"
> }
> Exclude {
> }
> }
>
> I have also left VSS turned on.
> I don't think that you need all the random excludes that you listed.
>
Not only that, these random excludes are actually harmful.
The reason the original poster was having problems is that he was trying
to back up FILES. Exchange, by design, runs 24/7, and therefore keeps
the database locked. Thus the error. Enabling VSS would probably work
around that and let you back up the files, but that is still not the
proper way of backing up Exchange.
By excluding the log files, the original poster did two things. First,
he excluded an important part of the database. Second, he failed to
exclude all log files. Exchange will regularly create new ones, so this
Exclude will only leave out a few random ones out of the middle of the
database.
Exchange, like most databases, writes changes first to the log files
before it updates the actual database. The log files stay around until
the next backup of the database.
Doing a file-level backup of Exchange really doesn't do all that much
good. First, even if you can take a snapshot of the files, it still has
not been cleanly shut down. Second, Exchange never finds out about this
type of backup, and therefore never cleans up the log files. So the
number of log files (and the amount of disk space they take up) keeps
growing. I believe this will also slow down Exchange.
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