From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 20 10:48:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48D3F16A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:48:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B875343D41 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:48:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 6D0801C0009B for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:48:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 443271C00092 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:48:23 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050320104823279.443271C00092@mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:48:16 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <16410309028.20050320114816@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <1029409489.20050320082843@wanadoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:48:25 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > Only if you purchase a backup software. If you want to use windows > backup you must shut down exchange because windows backup will not > back up open files. You can back up a running Exchange server with the standard software provided with Exchange and Windows. Some third-party products also provide special backup capability for Exchange, but you don't have to buy any third-party product to back up a running server. If you use a third-party product to back up the system and it doesn't have special Exchange capability, you must either stop the Exchange server during the backup or exclude the Exchange databases from the backup. No surprise here. > Also, a file based backup is pointless because it takes the mail store > in one fell swoop, it does not back up (nor allow you to restore) > individual mailboxes. You don't lose individual mailboxes in Exchange, so they don't have to be restored (unless you delete them accidentally, which good administrators do not do). Nevertheless, you can restore individual mailboxes if you have deletion retention configured and you're still within the retention time. This was not a feature of the original release of Exchange, but it exists now. I think it's a bad idea, but it was developed in response to customer demand. > This is yet another high-cost item, backup software that is written > to use the hooks in exchange to back it up is expensive. Life is tough. > By contrast under UNIX, you can use tar to backup the /var/mail > directories and you can definitely restore an individual mailbox > if you want to. You can do that with Exchange, too. However, I normally advise mail administrators that they have to train their users to understand that deleted e-mail is gone. In fact, I suggest that they not even tell users that e-mail is recoverable, unless they want to spend every waking hour restoring mailboxes. -- Anthony