I do the NT backup of the exchange to a .bkf file, then rsync that file. My largest was about 12GB and it took about 1 hour and transferred about 300MB of data across the net. I had to use rsync 3.x to make this work, though.
Brad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Bosch Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: RE: Backup Microsoft Exchange You need to use shadow copies to create a drive you can use with rsync, or you have to take Exchange offline. You can use vshadow.exe (use version 3.0) to create the shadow copy and then expose it as a drive. Then use rsync to sync this point-in-time backup to your offsite location across an ssh tunnel. vshadow with the -w option means it will tell the Exchange writer to create a consistent backup so you won't have problems with recovery. There is plenty of documentation on how to use vshadow to expose a shadow copy as a drive. When using rsync to send it offsite be sure to use the -I option since the date/time option of the exchange edb file will not necessarily change. You can also use betest (VSS SDK) to truncate logs periodically and use the -I option only when you truncate the logs. The rest of the time you will get the logs and you can do a soft recovery against your edb in the event of a disaster. If you truncate logs or use circular logging you have to use -I to force a sync even if the date/time has not changed. Rob -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
