TABLE OF CONTENTS The messaging and collaboration servers are mission critical, being perhaps the most vital servers in our datacenters today. It s therefore of the utmost importance that these servers be up and running all the time. Most service level agreements today require more than 99.99 percent uptime when it comes to the messaging and collaboration servers in the organization. Even if you have HA solutions such as CCR-based mailbox servers available, a disaster can still strike in your environment, and if this happens, you better be prepared since downtime typically means lost productivity and revenue. In this chapter, we ll go through the steps necessary to back up the different Exchange 2007 Server roles in your organization, and, just as important, look at how you restore Exchange 2007 servers and data should it be required.
Frequent backups of the Exchange 2007 servers in an organization are important operational tasks that, though a bit trivial, should be taken very seriously I can only imagine one thing worse than a complete failure of an Exchange 2007 server, and that s a complete failure of an Exchange 2007 server without any backups to restore from. In the first section of this chapter, we ll take a look at what you must back up, depending on which Exchange 2007 Server roles were deployed in your organization.
One of the most important things to back up regarding Exchange 2007 Mailbox Servers are the databases,...
