By developing and implementing a well-planned backup strategy, you can help prevent the loss of business-critical data within its Microsoft« Exchange 2000 Server organisation. The following provides information about planning and implementing a backup strategy for Exchange 2000 deployment.
It also provides backup and restore procedures to help you prepare for and implement a recovery should your organisation lose business-critical data.

• Exchange 2000 Disaster Recovery Concepts - information about planning a backup strategy for your Exchange 2000 organisation. This section also includes general information about disaster recovery processes and suggests ways to minimise the impact of a computer-related disaster.
• Backing Up Exchange 2000 - the backup procedures required to safeguard against computer-related disasters.
• Restoring Exchange 2000 - the Exchange 2000 restoration procedures to recover from computer-related disasters.
• Running Exchange 2000 in Disaster Recovery Mode
• Disaster Recovery Tables - tables that list the required preventative and recovery procedures for each disaster recovery scenario that may occur in an Exchange 2000 environment.

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