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Backing up MS Exchange 2003 - Real world solutions from the trenches

As an in house IT admin or if you're lucky or unlucky enough to live in the world of outsourced IT Support providers (like myself) you face a constant balancing act against budget v's the powers that be demanding quick recovery when the inevitable happens and something goes wrong. All those conversations that you have had trying to justify clustering your messaging system or having a warm spare server ready in case the Exchange server dies are forgotten when the Server Goes bang at 10am in the morning and the MD or Sales people are waiting for critical emails inbound or outbound. It's at this point that the Savvy IT professional and or contractor will have within easy reach a copy of all those emails and memos asking for budget to make recovery quicker. Now its fair to say that some of the problems with restoring Exchange quickly have been tackled my Microsoft within Exchange 2007, database portability, LCR even in Exchange Standard edition are all great, this however is no good if your still stuck with Exchange 2003.