Microsoft
Hi Dean,
We are quite off topic here :). If you have more questions, please email me at ninob AT microsoft DOT com. But quickly:
- Exchange 2003 did not support in-box VSS backups; so consistency check - as done in E2010 was not there
- Exchange 2007, if backed up with streaming backup, also does not do such a check; if backed up with in-box VSS, then there is a check (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204080(EXCHG.80).aspx)
- Yes, if your Exchange databases are on the system drive, everything on that drive (the whole volume) has to be backed up. When restoring, you do not need to restore the whole volume, but can choose to restore "Application" as in - Exchange data only. (I
put some screenshots of how this looks here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2009/05/13/details-of-exchange-2007-sp2-in-box-backup-when-running-on-windows-server-2008.aspx
blogs.technet.com/.../details-of-exchange-2007-sp2-in-box-backup-when-running-on-windows-server-2008.aspx) You may restore in place or out of place.
Hope this helps!