MS - Backup and Archive emails

[Guest]

I'm running SBS 2003 Server (exchange is part of it). My tape backups are
getting large. I've been asked to backup (archive) current emails so users
can clean out their accounts of older emails. Here's the catch... My boss
wants to have the ability to recover an email from the archived backups
without reloading all the emails back into his now smaller email account.
Make sense?

Is there a more (cost effective) easier way to do this?

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I'm running SBS 2003 Server (exchange is part of it). My tape
backups are getting large. I've been asked to backup (archive)
current emails so users can clean out their accounts of older emails.
Here's the catch... My boss wants to have the ability to recover an
email from the archived backups without reloading all the emails back
into his now smaller email account. Make sense?

Is there a more (cost effective) easier way to do this?

I would ask in the Exchange newsgroups since they deal with Exchange, which
is where the problem lies.

What you want is something beyond brick-level backup.

I'd look at microsoft.public.exchange.admin for assistance.

 

[Jules]

I would ask in theExchangenewsgroups since they deal withExchange, which
is where the problem lies.

What you want is something beyond brick-level backup.

I'd look at microsoft.public.exchange.admin for assistance.

Hi,
a solution may be cleaning up the exchange database by archiving email
on the file server.
Every email can be saved as a separate msg file in a directory.
And after this filing the email can be deleted from the exchange
server
In case you archive all your email to relevant directories, you even
can move old projects to another fileserver, or a part on the
fileserver not being copied to the backup tape every night.
Check www.slipstick.com or www.mailtofile.com for solutions like this.
This can handle the big e-mail problem! Your exchange database will be
very empty but no email is deleted, it is just moved