anchornet Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Upgraded a working SBS Retrospect to 7.6.123 and Exchange backup (separate script) now takes 1 second to complete. Obviously that's incorrect for a 12GB Exchange database. Something broke! At least I think so. Anyone else seeing this issue? Tried to unlicense, and re-license. Successful. Have special RBU account and Retrospect can see all the individual mailboxes. Successful. All with the same result. Here is the log... + Normal backup using Exchange at 12/17/2008 10:04 PM (Execution unit 1) * Resolved container Exchange Server to 1 volumes: First Storage Group To Backup Set Exchange... - 12/17/2008 10:04:01 PM: Copying First Storage Group 12/17/2008 10:04:01 PM: No files need to be copied 12/17/2008 10:04:05 PM: Execution completed successfully Duration: 00:00:04 (00:00:01 idle/loading/preparing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Can you browse the 1st storage group under Configure>Volumes? What version of Exchange? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchornet Posted December 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Yes, not a problem at all. Retrospect clearly sees both the public and private mail stores. Exchange 2003 SP2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Is the RBU account hidden from the global address book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchornet Posted December 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Verified: It is not hidden from the global address book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchornet Posted December 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 I rebooted tonight. No change in status. I think I got me a bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Please try an immediate backup. Select just the 1st storage group and not the exchange server container. Does it work? Does it do the same thing with a new backup set? If you downgrade to the prior version does it work immediately without making any other changes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchornet Posted December 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 (edited) Based on the suggested problem solving test, it would seem I have figured this out. My Exchange scripts have always had the selector set to "No Files". This worked just fine prior to the latest release. Once I upgraded, it would seem I needed to change those scripts to "All Files". Curious, since Exchange is a database, why do I need to set a Selector? My scripts for just Exchange have been fine with it set to "No Files". Edited December 19, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Customers wanted the ability to exclude databases by using a selector. It looks like the engineers figured out how to make that work. All Files is the default. I have never seen anyone select No Files for a database backup. It is like saying "backup no data" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchornet Posted December 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Yes, but why backup a "database file" when all you want to do is backup a "database"? Unless there is something about the mechanics that I'm missing, you would duplicate your backup storage requirements. One copy that you can restore from and one that you can't. We have drives that only have Exchange or SQL databases and we exclude those from normal file backups as they get personal attention with their respective database agents. Should we not do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 When you license Exchange/SQL Retrospect should be automatically excluding files on the drive letter that should not be recopied. We wouldn't make "all files" the default, if it was the "wrong" way to backup your databases. You can pretend that "all files" means "all databases". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchornet Posted December 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Thanks for the clarification! I've check that our selector worked but never checked if I needed to create such a selector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchornet Posted December 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 I'll think I'll grab a Gourmet Burrito just outside your offices in p-town in celebration of clearer understanding (I'm just down the street.). I raise my cup of Diet Coke to you Robin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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