11 myths about Exchange Backup & Recovery

E-mail is mission-critical and we all have various ways of backing up our data and recovering it when needed.

But are we covering everything?

For as long as Microsoft Exchange Server has existed, so too, have products that promise to prevent disasters, such as unplanned downtime. But most products fail to deliver on this promise, and can even cause their own issues when introduced into complex messaging environments. So what's an Exchange admin to do? Backups are part of the process to ensure you are protected from catastrophes, but neither prevent outages nor ensure against data loss.

With the growing dependency that businesses place on their messaging systems, in particularly Microsoft Exchange, it is no surprise that there are several misconceptions about disaster recovery software and procedures. Such software has evolved from the backup space, promising many 'wonderful' features. But does it really work?

Your company depends on Microsoft Exchange to conduct business, interact with customers, communicate among employees and so on. But when Exchange goes offline, even for a few moments, productivity grinds to a halt. The help desk is inundated with support calls, sales people complain, and BlackBerry's go dark, leaving your remote employees helpless too.

Avoiding an Exchange outage requires a well thought out disaster recovery (DR) plan. One that is positioned to subvert disasters in the first place, but also reduce their severity (length and data loss).

There are many misconceptions about backup and recovery and in this paper we will discuss these and how to overcome them by supplementing our current procedures with best-practices. Such topics will include continuous application protection, validation of backups and virtualization of disaster recovery. 

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