backing up

[cptkirkh]

i am attempting to backup my servers with third party software to a tape drive. it won't backup the ntuser.dat file it says it has a share violation. does anyone have a suggestion to what i can do? what backup software does anybody else use or do you use the backup stuff from NT? thanks for your help!

 

[Zelandakh]

Why do you want to backup the registry with your normal backup?

You need an NT server to restore to, so that will already have a registry.

Backup Exchange server by using an Exchange agent or by manually copying the priv, pub and edb.

 

[Guest_imported]

You may want to look into circular logging enable/disable. I use disable with incrementals this way all the log files are saved in between full backups thus allowing a speedie restore, you recover the last dB backup (not the logs) and play the logs bringing everything up to date providing it's not a failure of the log drive's. You must have a good backup and recovery plan this is where most exchange admins fail they get a dead server and their stuck.

Hope the links below help

http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/exchange/technote/edrv3p1.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/exchange/technote/edrv3p1.asp

 

[Guest_imported]

Wooops replied to the wrong thread