Fundamentals of Exchange Server disaster recovery -- 10 tips in 10 minutes

Various backup methods -- full, incremental, differential and copy backups -- are examined. The pros and the cons of several disaster recovery technologies are also covered -- including backup to tape, disk-based multi-stage backup and restore, vendor solutions, VSS and replication.

Once you understand the myriad disaster recovery technologies, you'll review the following design variables, consider their benefits and drawbacks, and discover how each factors into an effective disaster recovery plan:

• Onsite vs. offsite
• Recovery vs. redundancy and resiliency
• Service providers vs. do-it-yourself
• Planned vs. unplanned

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[IMAGE]10 tips in 10 minutes: Fundamentals of Exchange Server disaster recovery
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[IMAGE] Home: Introduction
[IMAGE] Tip 1: Defining Exchange disaster recovery
[IMAGE] Tip 2: How Exchange backs up data
[IMAGE] Tip 3: Choosing a backup type for Exchange
[IMAGE] Tip 4: Online vs. offline Exchange Server backups
[IMAGE] Tip 5: Basic Exchange backup and restore
[IMAGE] Tip 6: Exchange vendor snapshots and point-in-time copies
[IMAGE] Tip 7: Exchange Server VSS
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[IMAGE] Tip 9: Exchange design choices and issues
[IMAGE] Tip 10: Exchange disaster recovery planning

This chapter excerpt from the free e-book The Definitive Guide to Exchange Disaster Recovery and Availability, by Paul Robichaux, is printed with permission from Realtimepublishers, Copyright 2005. Click here for the chapter download or download all available chapters here.