Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Operational Best Practices

To successfully back up or restore an operation, follow some best practices:

• Document your backup and restore procedures.

• Ensure copies of the backups are stored in an alternate location.

• Check your backup monitoring and logging system every day to ensure the Exchange server backups are successful from the previous night.

• Perform a trial backup and restore on a monthly or quarterly basis to ensure your solution is working and to keep your restore skills up to snuff.

• De-duplication technologies will benefit your backup media space consumption.

• If you use tape storage for your backups:

  • Routinely clean the tape drives according to manufacturer specifications.

  • Do not overuse tapes. Discard them after they reach the maximum number ...