Microsoft® System Center 2012 Unleashed

Protecting Exchange Servers

One of the hardest aspects of managing any Exchange Server environment is ensuring that the related data is always protected and recoverable. It is not that the act of protecting or recovering Exchange data is necessarily difficult. Instead, because the Exchange Server database architecture is transaction based, any backup and recovery solution that is being used needs to be tailored toward Exchange itself. Although many solutions have been used over the years to handle protecting Exchange data, the previous norm has mostly been to rely on bulky brick-level backups, complex recovery processes, and large data gaps and to expect a lack of backup and restore granularity. When compounded with Exchange’s often notorious ...