MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony
> Atkielski
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 11:29 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?
> 

> If the database becomes corrupted, which is highly unlikely, you must
> restore it from your last backup (every mail administrator takes
> frequent backups, which can be done online with Exchange). 

Only if you purchase a backup software.  If you want to use windows
backup you must shut down exchange because windows backup will not
back up open files.  Also, a file based backup is pointless because
it takes the mail store in one fell swoop, it does not back up (nor
allow you to restore) individual mailboxes.

This is yet another high-cost item, backup software that is written
to use the hooks in exchange to back it up is expensive.

By contrast under UNIX, you can use tar to backup the /var/mail
directories and you can definitely restore an individual mailbox
if you want to.

Ted