edmorey Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Hi - were running Retrospect SBS v7.5.387 on our company server. As an Exchange newbie can I ask some for advice re: backing up mailboxes. Within the Retrospect "sources" we can see a "storage group" and individual mailboxes. 1. What is the difference between the two?? 2. Should we be backing up both?? 3. Windows seems to store the "storage group" file as a single big file which grows slightly each day. In our instance this means we are chewing up around 3GB of additional storage space every day when doing an incremental backup. Is there a way to grab just the changes and not the whole file?? Thanks Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 The storage group contains all of your mailboxes and exchange data. Mailboxes are the individual mailboxes and all the mail on the server. It is best to back up both items. 3 GB of changes is not very much in todays computing world. You should always allow it to do a full backup of the first storage group when it is this small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmorey Posted September 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 So could I instead of doing an incremental backup on the storage group and mailboxes - have a separate script which does a daily full backup overwriting the previous day's version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Yes, you can do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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