On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:48:12 -0800 (PST)
Roveer <> wrote:
> On Dec 13, 3:44Â*pm, Roveer <rov...@erols.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to cull down my backups so they are not so large. Â*I
> > already found that I missed an exclusion which was accounting for
> > 90gb per night. Â*I back up that directory weekly under a seperate
> > backup. That was pretty big.
> >
> > I'm looking at Exchange which is 11gb Â*When I run the SBS backup
> > wizard I notice that it does not allow me to specifically pick what
> > to backup. Â*I also notice when looking at my backup file that the
> > exchange database is listed in the backup. Â*I also see another entry
> > for the "first storage group".
> >
> > Am I backing up exchange twice? or is NTBackup doing the right
> > thing? Should I be putting the exchange directory as an "exclude"?
> > Â*I don't want to backup things more times than I have to and I also
> > read that backing up exchange improperly can damage it.
>
> SBS Backup will NOT allow me to exclude MDBDATA from it's backups. So
> I guess that answers my question.
Yes. And you are backing it up twice, this is normal. Even more reason
to stand over your users with a whip while they delete old emails...
By the way, you may have noticed it's fairly quiet here. Everyone is
over at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...server/threads
as Microsoft has officially abandoned Usenet.
--
Joe
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