Full / Incremental Backup with Exchange2000 agent

[tschons]

Hello

Till now we used the ARCserve2000, and we made once a week a fullbackup and on the other day a incremental (one Job). Now I would like to use the same schema, also with the Exchange Agent. There I would like to make a Brick-Level-Backup. I found a option to change from full to incremental, but then I have to make to different job, one for the fullbackup and one for the incrementalbackup. is this correct, or is there a way to make just one job for both.

thank you for the help.

cu tschons

 

[Cyklops]

When backing up Exchange through the exchange client you don't use the 'incremental/differential' options like you use them on file systems because you are not dealing with archive bits here but with archive logs. Right-click on the backup agent, choose options and decide how you want to configure your Exchange agent backup from here.

regards

 

[tschons]

thank you for your help. but it's still not clear for me. I wan't to make a fullbackup on Monday of the brick-level and on Tu-Su just a incremental.
if I choose the fullbackup option, then the agent makes everday I fullbackup or not?

which option do I have to take??

cu tschons

 

[Cyklops]

When backing Exchange up through the agent, this agent will backup the Exchange databases and transaction logs ( full ) or the transaction logs only ( differential/incremental ).
Depending on the options you set the logs will be truncated
( full / incremental ) or not ( copy / differential ).
Backing up through the agent has nothing to do with regular file backups. It is just that the agent requests Exchange to put databases/transaction logs in backup mode which are transferred to ARCserve. With restoring it is the other way around.

Hope this is more clear

regards

 

[BoredSting]

I have noticed that if i use a rotation job. then it will properly do the logs based upon inc/diff terms. And during a full backup it will go ahead and purge.