[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Can't please them all can you? - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Wed, Sep 3 2008 22:28 bradley

Can't please them all can you?

http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisewindows/archives/2008/09/exchange_backup.html

Show me an Enterprise customer and they probably are not using ntbackup to backup Exchange.

Show me a SBS 2008 server and there's a backup api under the hood that is included in the product because we're spoiled because our Backup wizard in 2k3 backed up Exchange as well

Show me some of the consultants and they are freaking out that Win2k8 backup can't backup to tape.

Can't please them all can you?

And if you want to backup to disk in the 2k8 era.... http://www.backupassist.com/BackupAssistV5/beta/v5Beta_Announcement.html  Affordable solution right there.

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# re: Can't please them all can you?

Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:05 AM by Chris Knight

MSIT did use NTBackup to back up Exchange.

technet.microsoft.com/.../bb735157.aspx

Granted, it was 4 years ago. But if you look at that whitepaper there were a few engineers that spent a considerable amount of time wokring with it to back up Exchange. Sorta dispels the myth that NTBackup is/was a toy.

The SMB Pre-Day at TechEd Australia convinced me that BackupAssist is going to be the cheapest, painless way of backing up SBS2008 VMs sitting on top of Hyper-V (which is another "Can't please them all topic"!).

# re: Can't please them all can you?

Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:50 AM by Dean

The backup wizard does back up Exchange but Microsoft refuses to create a VSS writer for Exchange so it's backed up without it's data being flushed to disk first. So it gets backed up as if the power plug were pulled. What ever state the Exchange database is in when NTbackup hits it is what gets backed up.