Backup Exchange Server 2007

Undergoing the Exchange Server 2007 backup and recovery procedures is something that everyone is prone to be in need of doing. Either you want to save the database, or plan on migrating the data or simply want to uninstall Exchange 2007, doing a backup will be crucial for the objective.

To backup Exchange Server 2007 there aren't that many different procedures to be done from those applied in the previous versions. You can resort to a utility designed by Microsoft to assist you on this task with a reduced effort. Of course that you still have to pay mind to all the strategies involved here since the program can't do those decisions for you.

The Exchange Server 2007 backups can either be done in the traditional full backup or incremental backup along with full copy mode, plus you can still choose to either do it online or offline. What we had with 2003 Exchange server already though, the NTBackup, in 2007 we can use this to use a efficient DPM protection.

The DPM, Data Protection Manager, used in the 2007 version is made to natively support this version of Exchange Server, so, you can use singularly this utility to do all the backups of the Exchange Server database in one configuration. DPM's main features are that it is single-handedly aware of all the server infrastructure.

It can tell how many servers are online, the database status, the existing interconnections, it can provide the currently active database against corruption. All this on-the-fly, while still allowing to create the more traditional backup files that can be restored later without any issues, or used to work on the migration processes to another Exchange Server platform.

DPM's system is so useful and worthy mostly due to the constant replica that it creates, and maintains, while the system is functioning. It's basically a real-time backup tool that's never running late, allowing the server to be kept fresh with the most recent data and in some cases have smaller errors corrected almost seamlessly.