Thread: Exchange 2007 backup best practice

I run differentials once each weekend. This keeps the delta chain to less than seven while still generally avoiding backing up the whole store. You could make a case that setting the maximum delta percentage to something like 75% would still make sense because at that point you're backing up most of the store in a weekend anyway. You could also schedule an annual full backup to take place over a long weekend (like Memorial day or Labor...

I'd love to know how the majority of partners are dealing with this issue, or are most just winging it with very long chains (either long in terms of lots of incrementals or in terms of the time over which diffs+incs are spread) and hoping they don't need to restore? Around here the absolute max upload speed a customer will have is 1Mb, uploading even a 35Gb (pretty small size these days) Information Store will take about 100 hours...

Hi.. How would you go about backing up a 50gb exchange store. i intend to do a local backup and seed the data for the initial run. but how do i go about it after that .. i think i read somehwere that running a full backup once a month is recommended. but the thing is.. the client internet connection isn't fast enough to upload +50gb in a weekend..

By default your settings will run a full backup once the incremental chain hits its 100th upload (or 50% ratio file size of total incremental files to original file). You don't need to worry about scheduling it, as that will happen automatically (for better or worse). You are going to need to sell your client on a faster connection or just get into the habit of running a seed load every 3.333 months. Alternatively, you can use a...

I am interested in this discussion also - I am not keen to run seed loads every three months if I can avoid it (cost and effort). I want to know if someone out there has found a way to streamline the data movement so the seed load is not required. I am starting to pick up customers with Exchange DBs over 100Gb, so it is definitely an issue for me. Maybe I just add a seed-load charge... Kevin