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by tunde123

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Recently our exchanger server crashed.
A lot of users lost their mails.
How can i backup these user mails so that when i have a crash i can restore it?

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by runningwolf

I do not have an answer to your question, but I'd like to add my own question in with it. I use Arcserve 6.5 to back up our server. Every morning when I come in and check the log, there are 6 files under the Exchange directory that do not get backedup because of Sharing violations. How do I get those files backed up so that I could restore them if I needed to.

by bearded_wonder

We use Backup Exec with the Back Office package, it is designed to capture components of Exchange, SQL, etc. in a more usable form than the standard directory by directory approach. It simplifies backups and restores.
As far as the sharing violations, if they are the same files every night, and they aren't being modified regularly I would suggest an offline backup- stop the System Attendant service (that will stop all Exchange services) then copy or back-up the files, then restart all of the services which shut down.

by kbrown

Look on the cai.com website to see if they have an Exchange agent for ArcServ 6.5. If so, the agent will backup your Information Store, Directory as well as an optional bricks-level backup which backs up individual mailboxes for easy restores.

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