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Jun 21, 2004

Some of you might wonder - why write about this subject? Well, every day I see customers calling in with Exchange servers that have experienced some sort of disaster... we all know that hard drives...

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Jun 26, 2004

Nino, I noticed that you mentioned excluding the database and log files from a normal file backup using Windows 2003 NTBackup and instead use the Exchange aware portion of NTBackup to back up the databases. Does this mean it's safe to say that I could just exclude the MDBDATA folder entirely on a default Exchange installation?