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Some of you might wonder whether there isn’t anything else you need to back up on an Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server?. The answer is no critical fi les at least since you can always recover

As you can see in Figure 9.3, you now have the option of entering a description for the

respective backup job, as well as specify whether the backed-up data should be appended to an

existing backup In addition, you can create a scheduled backup job so it runs, let’s say, every day at

midnight By clicking the Advanced button, you also have the option of having the backed-up data

verifi ed when the job completes

Figure 9.2 Selecting the Storage Groups to Be Backed Up

Typically, you should set up an automated backup job schedule, but for the purpose of this

example we’ll just choose to back up the databases once When ready, click Start Backup.

When the backup job has completed, you can view a report, which will contain any warnings or errors that might occur during the backup

That’s how you back up the Mailbox and Public Folder databases, as well as commit and delete any existing transaction log fi les using the Windows 2003 Backup tool Sounds simple, right?

Some of you might wonder whether there isn’t anything else you need to back up on an

Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server? The answer is no critical fi les at least since you can always

recover an Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server using the Setup /Mode:RecoverServer command (shown later

in the chapter), but it’s always a good idea to back up the System State of the respective server as well

Backing Up an Exchange 2007

Hub Transport Server

Since an Exchange 2007 Server with the Hub Transport Server role installed was designed to store all confi guration data in the Active Directory confi guration container, not much needs to be backed up

on a server with this role installed either But just as with the Mailbox server role, you should back up the System State

Some of you may be wondering why I haven’t mentioned anything about backing up the message queues stored in an ESE database on an Exchange 2007 Hub Transport Server… Well, there shouldn’t be any need to do so since you can mount the message queues on another existing, or newly installed, Hub Transport server if required You just need to retrieve the mail.que (which, by default, is located under C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\TransportRoles\data\Queue) from the failed Hub Transport server

One thing you might want to back up regarding an Exchange 2007 Hub Transport Server is

the Message Tracking and Protocol logs which, by default, are located under C:\Program Files\

Microsoft\Exchange Server\TransportRoles\Logs These fi les can be backed up using a fi le level

backup

As is the case with a Mailbox Server, you can recover a Hub Transport server using the

Setup/Mode:RecoverServer command.

Backing Up an Exchange 2007 Client Access Server

When using Exchange 2007 Server with the Client Access Server role installed, there are several fi les you should back up The fi rst, and perhaps most important, to back up is the IIS Metabase, which

among other things is used to store OWA Virtual Directory confi guration data You can back up the IIS confi guration on a CAS using the following command:

get-owavirtualdirectory “owa (default web site)” | export-clixml owa.xml -depth 1

In order to restore the IIS confi guration from the owa.xml fi le, you need to use a Windows

PowerShell script similar to the following (save it as Restore-OWA.PS1 or use some other

meaningful name):

$ErrorActionPreference = ‘stop’

$savedprops = @(

‘DirectFileAccessOnPublicComputersEnabled’,

‘DirectFileAccessOnPrivateComputersEnabled’,

‘WebReadyDocumentViewingOnPublicComputersEnabled’,

‘WebReadyDocumentViewingOnPrivateComputersEnabled’,

‘ForceWebReadyDocumentViewingFirstOnPublicComputers’,

‘ForceWebReadyDocumentViewingFirstOnPrivateComputers’,

‘RemoteDocumentsActionForUnknownServers’,

‘ActionForUnknownFileAndMIMETypes’,

‘WebReadyFileTypes’,

‘WebReadyMimeTypes’,

NOTE

For step-by-step instructions on how to move a message queue from a failed Hub

Transport server to another Hub Transport server in the organization, search under

“Working with the Queue Database on Transport Servers” in the Exchange 2007

Documentation Help fi le

‘ForceSaveFileTypes’,

‘ForceSaveMimeTypes’,

‘BlockedFileTypes’,

‘BlockedMimeTypes’,

‘RemoteDocumentsAllowedServers’,

‘RemoteDocumentsBlockedServers’,

‘RemoteDocumentsInternalDomainSuffi xList’,

‘LogonFormat’,

‘ClientAuthCleanupLevel’,

‘DefaultDomain’,

‘FormsAuthentication’,

‘BasicAuthentication’,

‘DigestAuthentication’,

‘WindowsAuthentication’,

‘GzipLevel’,

‘FilterWebBeaconsAndHtmlForms’,

‘Notifi cationInterval’,

‘DefaultTheme’,

‘UserContextTimeout’,

‘ExchwebProxyDestination’,

‘VirtualDirectoryType’,

‘RedirectToOptimalOWAServer’,

‘DefaultClientLanguage’,

‘LogonAndErrorLanguage’,

‘UseGB18030’,

‘UseISO885915’,

‘OutboundCharset’,

‘CalendarEnabled’,

‘ContactsEnabled’,

‘TasksEnabled’,

‘JournalEnabled’,

‘NotesEnabled’,

‘RemindersAndNotifi cationsEnabled’,

‘PremiumClientEnabled’,

‘SpellCheckerEnabled’,

‘SearchFoldersEnabled’,

‘ThemeSelectionEnabled’,

‘JunkEmailEnabled’,

‘UMIntegrationEnabled’,

‘WSSAccessOnPublicComputersEnabled’,

‘WSSAccessOnPrivateComputersEnabled’,

‘ChangePasswordEnabled’,

‘UNCAccessOnPublicComputersEnabled’,

‘UNCAccessOnPrivateComputersEnabled’,

‘ActiveSyncIntegrationEnabled’,

‘AllAddressListsEnabled’,

‘InternalUrl’,

‘ExternalUrl’

)

$vdir = import-clixml $args[0]

‘Recreating “ ‘ + $vdir.name + ’ ”‘ + ’ owa version: ’ + $vdir.owaversion

if ($vdir.owaversion -eq ‘Exchange2007’) {

new-owavirtualdirectory -website $vdir.website -internalurl

$vdir.internalurl -externalurl $vdir.externalurl

}

else {

new-owavirtualdirectory -website $vdir.website -owaversion $vdir.

owaversion -name $vdir.displayname -virtualdirectorytype $vdir.

virtualdirectorytype

}

$new = get-owavirtualdirectory $vdir.name

‘Restoring properties’

foreach ($prop in $savedprops) {

if ($prop -eq ‘ExchwebProxyDestination’ -or $prop -eq

‘VirtualDirectoryType’) {

continue

}

$new.$prop = $vdir.$prop

}

$new | set-owavirtualdirectory

To restore the IIS confi guration data that were saved in the owa.xml fi le, type Restore-OWA.

PS1 owa.xml

In addition to the IIS metabase, you should back up the System State and the fi les listed

in Table 9.1