Wednesday, May 23, 2012

MS Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 Backup & Restore using StoreGrid ...

In today?s business world, email is a mission critical application which has a major impact on both revenue generation and customer satisfaction. Even with careful planning and redundant systems, occasionally email downtime happens due failures of software (e.g. Exchange database failures, OS failures), hardware, network, applications; virus attacks and security breaches. When it comes to businesses, the most popular messaging and collaboration software is MS Exchange Server

Key business needs w.r.t Exchange Backup & Disaster Recovery are listed below:

  1. Easy and rapid individual users mailbox recovery in situations where an user loses an individual mailbox (like contacts, emails, calendar, tasks etc), in which case you don?t have to restore the entire server to recover exchange mailbox, thus making exchange mailbox restore simpler and easier.

  1. Rapid restore of ?deleted emails eliminating the need to restore the entire database, saving time and money.

  1. Rapid Exchange EDB restores to minimize recovery time objectives (RTO) and achieve fast disaster recovery and complete business continuity.

So there you have it: 3 key exchange backup and restore use cases StoreGrid delivers to achieve fast disaster recovery and complete business continuity. And our MSP partners now have an affordable, easy-to-use system that provides total disaster recovery for their SMB customers Exchange ecosystem which could a deployment of any version of MS Exchange ( 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010).

The ability to continuously backup Exchange 2003/2007/2010 mailboxes and seamlessly perform server restores at granular level at all times, 365x24x7 is a top challenge and priority for MSPs and businesses. It is also very essential to simplify individual mailboxes and mail server restores in the event of server corruption or disaster. Keeping this in mind, we plan to provide technical deep dive on Exchange Backup & Disaster recovery use cases and How-os using StoreGrid in the next couple of upcoming blog posts.

So share your thoughts on your Exchange backup use case and how you currently deploy StoreGrid to protect them. As always we look forward to seeing your comments and suggestions as well.

Tags: backup exchange, exchange 2003 backup, exchange 2010 backup, exchange 2010 disaster recovery, recover exchange mailbox