Backup Exchange 2007

Today, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is the heart of any Windows Server-based business, it's the latest word in the area of messaging, work organization and collaboration of employees. Creation of Exchange 2007 backups is a guarantee that in case of any troubles that may happen to the server (hardware failure, theft, human factor), nothing will happen to the very business and most critical data will be quickly restored.

Generally speaking, Exchange Server is an IT infrastructure application produced by Microsoft that supplies enterprises with services of e-mail messaging, data storage, resource planning, etc. If your company doesn’t back up Exchange Servers 2007, it puts at risk your business continuity, as not having a disaster recovery plan often appears fatal for business, regardless of its area of activity.

When considering a business continuity plan for a company that actively exploits mission-critical applications in a Windows Server environment (Microsoft SQL Servers, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007), backup and disaster recovery policies must be the first things to think about. Today's market offers a variety of backup solutions that allow automating all tasks. When choosing a utility to back up Exchange Server, it is recommended that they should provide the following features:

• Scheduling, or a possibility to start backup jobs on certain events. By making backups run automatically you reduce the efforts and costs associated with backup routine.
• Security. It is important to disallow unauthorized employees to access backups of business-critical information like Exchange stores. This can be achieved, for example, with backup encryption, or simple password protection.
• Storage. Backups cost nothing if you won't be able to restore them. This means that storage media or servers where you keep them must be reliable. Since MS Exchange data is probably the most important asset of a company, it is wise to keep more than one backup, e.g. have some backup rotation plan.

While these explanations are very simple and clear, they are too often neglected by business owners and IT administrators, which makes a backup routine extremely complex and expensive. We hope that you will find them helpful and beneficial to your business. We recommend you to try out the Exchange backup utility that we produce: Handy Backup.