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To successfully protect your Exchange 2000 organisation from losing critical data in the event of a disaster, it is important to completely back up your servers running Exchange 2000. The data that you decide to back up as part of your disaster recovery strategy determines the recovery processes that you can perform. These tasks cannot be planned separately.
A company that does not back up enough Exchange 2000 data has not carefully considered its backup strategy. For example, if a company experiences a disaster and only has backups of the most basic server elements, it may be able to recover the Exchange 2000 configuration settings and all Exchange 2000 database files. However, with such limited backups, that company may not be able to recover other data or configuration information that existed on the original server (for example, management scripts, Active Server Pages [ASP], or system management software that resided on the server before it was rebuilt).
If you take time to back up everything in your Exchange 2000 organisation, you may be able to completely restore critical data. However, if you back up all the data in your organisation, your backup and restore processes will be more complicated, more time consuming, and will require more tapes or disk space.
To determine what data you need to back up in order to successfully recover from a disaster, it is recommended that you practice disaster recovery procedures in a test environment before implementing a back up strategy on your production servers.
There are two types of data to consider backing up in your Exchange 2000 organisation: static and dynamic.
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