Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange - User Guide - Manual (Page 80)

Appendix A. Acronis Recovery for MS
Exchange: Best Practices
This section provides instructions for best practices when using Acronis Recovery for
MS Exchange.
A.1 Protect your server from hardware failure, user errors
and viruses
Scenario
The company is running several internet and intranet applications on several Windows
2000 servers using Microsoft Exchange as the back end (using different information
stores). Since all transactions are stored in the database, any data loss is not
acceptable. The database administrator must provide protection from hardware failure,
user errors and virus attacks.
Acronis solution
Use the following components
ƒ Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Agent (on all servers with databases)
ƒ Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Management Console (on an administrator
workstation, from which you plan to manage tasks)
To schedule periodic backup
1. Install Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Management Console on the
database administrator workstation and Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange
Agents on the server where Microsoft Exchange information stores are located
For every Microsoft Exchange instance perform the following actions:
2. Connect to the server from the Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Management
Console using the appropriate credentials
3. Launch the Create Backup wizard and follow the instructions to create a
backup task:
a. Select the whole Microsoft Exchange instance (or all available instances)
as a backup source
b. Select a backup destination
c. Select Full and Incremental backups type
d. Schedule full backups for every month, incremental backups for every
week
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