EDIT: This post was updated on 4/29/2008 to add more detail about the Exchange-aware backup on next version of SBS.
In a previous blog post, we wrote about the various versions of Exchange Server and...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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I think we need an update on what the Exchange team is doing to add Exchange backup support to WSB.
"We are looking into the issues around shipping special support for Exchange with Windows Server Backup (WSB)."
It's been a month. Everything is RTM.
We have a single exchange 2007 SP1 server serving 25 organizations on 1 Windows 2008 server machine. They all use outlook anywhere and love it. I used to be able to back up exchange with a simple powershell script and ntbackup, and knew that it was a reliable backup - if disaster strikes. Now I'm having to go through some ass-backwards steps to back up a mailbox store; a freaking mailbox store, how hard can it be to have some forsight and build on what has worked well for you and your customers for more than a decade - the built in windows backup utility, by whatever name, that natively supported backing up ANY, and I do stress ANY, Microsoft product that just happened to be installed on the system.
You may have had to stop some services in the old days, but at least you could perform a reliable backup.
"We are looking into the issues around shipping special support for Exchange with Windows Server Backup (WSB)."
It's been a month. Everything is RTM.
We have a single exchange 2007 SP1 server serving 25 organizations on 1 Windows 2008 server machine. They all use outlook anywhere and love it. I used to be able to back up exchange with a simple powershell script and ntbackup, and knew that it was a reliable backup - if disaster strikes. Now I'm having to go through some ass-backwards steps to back up a mailbox store; a freaking mailbox store, how hard can it be to have some forsight and build on what has worked well for you and your customers for more than a decade - the built in windows backup utility, by whatever name, that natively supported backing up ANY, and I do stress ANY, Microsoft product that just happened to be installed on the system.
You may have had to stop some services in the old days, but at least you could perform a reliable backup.