Exchange Information Store and Mailbox Backup
BackupAssist supports two types of Exchange Server backup:
Storage Group and Information store
Backup your entire Exchange Server Information Store database. Having a backup of your entire Exchange Information Store database allows you to perform a complete restore your Exchange Server, including public folders; and best of all, the Information store backup capability comes absolutely free with the BackupAssist license.
Individual mailbox
With the Exchange Mailbox Add-on you can achieve brick-level backups of your Microsoft Exchange Server. This allows for simple and rapid restoration of individual or group emails, calendars, tasks, notes, contacts or entire mailboxes.
Licensing
BackupAssist
Exchange Mailbox Add-on (Only required for mailbox backup)
Supported Exchange Servers
Information Store Backup:
Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010
Mailbox Backup:
Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007
Method
Information Store Backup:
Backed up using Windows Backup (NTBackup) or Windows Server Backup (wbadmin).
Mailbox Backup:
Backed up using BackupAssist Mailbox Exporter or Exmerge
Resources
Exchange White paper
Exchange Mailbox Add-on Brochure
Exchange Mailbox Add-on White paper
- Exchange Information Store for complete Exchange Server restoration
- Brick-level backup of Exchange mailboxes using the Exchange Mailbox Add-on
- Can be installed on 32 and 64 bit machines; Outlook not required
Backing up the Storage Groups and Information Stores
Using NTBackup, you can perform a streaming backup of Exchange Server 2000, 2003 and 2007. This is commonly known as an online backup as it can be done while the Exchange Server is still running. BackupAssist also supports native Exchange Server 2007 backup on Windows Server 2008 using Windows Server Backup.
Backing up Individual Mailboxes
Using our Exchange Mailbox engine, you can backup individual mailboxes for extra data protection.
Our Exchange Mailbox engine is so advanced that it will sort and group your emails by date range, and allow you to store the emails as PST files for maximum compatibility.
Advanced options also exist for you to perform the backup in archive mode (where the original messages are deleted). If you combine this feature with the Journaling features in Exchange, you can achieve the capture of every incoming and outgoing email. This is very useful for compliance purposes.
How to restore Exchange Server
There are 3 different options available when restoring Exchange Server data:
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Restoring entire storage groups
In the event of a major corruption or disaster, you can perform an online restore of your Exchange Server, as outlined in our Exchange White Paper.
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Restoring messages from a mailbox to Exchange
For minor restore jobs like restoring a full or part of a mailbox, you can either perform an online restore of your Exchange Server to a Recovery Storage Group and then use Exmerge to migrate across the relevant mailbox, or simply use Exmerge to restore directly from your Exchange Mailbox Backups.
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Retrieving messages from a mailbox anywhere, at any time
Simply open your mailbox PST file on any computer with outlook installed, and drag-and-drop the relevant items to copy them back.
For the more advanced scenario of migrating an Exchange database to a new server, you also have the ability to forklift the Exchange databases from your file-backup of the Exchange data files.
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