I do an offline copy of the exchange database, but (as you indicated) as
it can be tricky to use on another server, as seconday backup I use
EXMERGE to extract everyones mailbox to a PST file. I then rsync the PST
files.
It has some limitations, but it works ok as a secondary backup.
I've used EX
Hi,
Its /IS flag
The easy why to create the ntbackup command is to schedule backup using
the GUI. Then copy the cmd command form "Scheduled Tasks" properties.
You can restore using the GUI.
Full ntbackup documentation can be found here:
http://www.nasbackup.com/index.php?name=Web_Links&req=vi
Thanks for that.
It sounds like the ntbackup option is the best as it will truncate the
log files.
Do you have some examples of the ntbackup scripts that you use to backup
the mailboxes.
The next questions is, what is the procedure for getting the mailboxes
back onto the Exchange server if i
Title: RE: Backup Exchange mailboxes using rsync
Hi,
I am not an Exchange expert, so I may have it totally wrong, but what I do is to have the ntbackup doing an online Exchange backup, then rsync this to another server over SSH. If you do a rsync of the Exchange DB, you would have to do an
Hello Reuben,
Exchange database files are lock. You have several options.
1)
The easy one is to backup exchange to the local disk using ntbackup and
then the rsync the backup file.
2)
Stop Exchange, rsync the files and then start it. The drawback is that
you will have dowm time.
Th
