The following provides you with the procedures you need to back up the data in your Exchange 2000 organisation. The procedures you perform are dependant on your topology and the type of backup plan you create. The data you decide to back up depends on the recovery strategy you select.

You can categorise your recovery strategy as either a plan to restore the server, rebuild the server, or restore to a stand-by recovery server. Each strategy has its own set of backup and restore procedures.
For more information about these recovery strategies, see Selecting an Exchange 2000 Disaster Recovery Strategy.
For information about establishing a backup plan for your Exchange 2000 organisation, see Exchange 2000 Disaster Recovery Concepts.
For a complete list of the different backup procedures you must perform to protect your data from various disasters, see ôAppendix A: Disaster Recovery Tablesö later in this document.

The following topics provide descriptions and procedural information for various backup processes:

• Selecting Backup Types and Rotation Schedules
• Creating Full Computer Backup Sets
• Creating Windows 2000 Backup Sets
• Backing Up Domain Controllers
• Backing Up Exchange 2000 Data
• Backing Up Exchange 2000 Clusters

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Premium Edition
• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Standard Edition
• Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server