Backup Client Options

[Scotta98]

Hi Guys,

Even though I'm not a professional, I manage a small network at work. I have 12 xp sp2 workstations, an exchange server (EX2K3 sp2 on W2K3 Server), a W2K3 file server, a Fedora Core 5 web server networked to the AD with SAMBA and an older server that I have dubbed a backup.

I currently have backup exec 10d and a DDS4 tape drive but no exchange client yet for individual mailboxes. I was wondering if there are any open source backup solutions that you could recommend?

Ideally, it would reside on one of the windows servers, have a good GUI and be reliable but low extra features. In other words, I want to have an easy way to set it and then forget it.

Is this too much to ask? Thanks in advance to any and all.

 

[LWComputingMVP]

Brick level backups are not a great idea - you need to do Information Store backups. You can use ExMerge if you want to backup individual users mailboxes. See

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...EC-DCDF-47DC-96DA-1C12D67327D5&displaylang=en

 

[crobin1]

You could use the built-in NT backup on the Exchange server to backup the Information Store to a file, then use BackupExec to backup that file to tape. Recovery would take a bit longer since you would have to do 2 restores (restore the file from tape then restore the IS from the file) but it would get you by. The NT backup can be easily scripted and scheduled.