Maintaining remote copy/backup of PST file

[steve]

Hello,

We are a very small company (5 employees) and each employee works from
their own home office.

We're looking for a solution that will allow us to maintain a daily
backup of our e-mails at a remote location (for disaster recovery
purposes). In other words, if our hard-disk crashes, we want to be able
to restore our e-mails from a backup, but we don't want that backup to
reside in our immediate area.

Copying the entire PST file over the internet to a remote location uses
too my bandwidth and takes too long.

Are there other server-side solutions? For instance, if we used
Microsoft Exchange as our email server software, would it maintain a
copy of our incoming and outgoing e-mails, folder structure, and allow
us to restore out client Outlook if our personal PST files were lost?

Thanks in advance.

-S

 

[Roady [MVP]]

When you use Exchange you won't be using pst-files anymore. All mail would
reside on the server and the clients will be working with a copy of that
mailbox (Cached Exchange Mode) so even when the server/connection would be
down they still have access to their mail.

Using Windows Small Business Server configured with Exchange (included) RPC
over HTTP sounds like the way to go.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Hello,

We are a very small company (5 employees) and each employee works from
their own home office.

We're looking for a solution that will allow us to maintain a daily
backup of our e-mails at a remote location (for disaster recovery
purposes). In other words, if our hard-disk crashes, we want to be able
to restore our e-mails from a backup, but we don't want that backup to
reside in our immediate area.

Copying the entire PST file over the internet to a remote location uses
too my bandwidth and takes too long.

Are there other server-side solutions? For instance, if we used
Microsoft Exchange as our email server software, would it maintain a
copy of our incoming and outgoing e-mails, folder structure, and allow
us to restore out client Outlook if our personal PST files were lost?

Thanks in advance.

-S