Policy recommendations for Exchange Server 2007 and earlier database backups

Refer to the following recommendations when you create database backup policies for Exchange Server 2007 and earlier:

Table: Example Exchange 2007 and earlier streaming backup or snapshot policy that backs up all the databases

Policy item

Configuration

Policy type

MS-Exchange-Server

Backup selections

Microsoft Information Store:\

Auto backup frequency

Weekly Full

Daily Incremental

Enable granular recovery

Optional. Enable this option if you want to restore individual mailbox and public folder objects from the database backup.

Other configuration

For snapshot backups, select Perform snapshot backups.

Table: Example snapshot policy that backs up a storage group for an Exchange 2007 or earlier database

Policy item

Configuration

Policy type

MS-Exchange-Server

Backup selections

Microsoft Information Store:\Storage Group

Auto backup frequency

Weekly Full

Daily Incremental

Enable granular recovery

Optional. Enable this option if you want to restore individual mailbox and public folder objects from the database backup.

Other configuration

Select Perform snapshot backups.

Table: Example Exchange 2007 or earlier streaming backup policy that backs up a storage group or a storage group database

Policy item

Configuration

Policy type

MS-Exchange-Server

Backup selections

Microsoft Information Store:\Storage Group

Microsoft Information Store:\Storage Group\Database

Auto backup frequency

Weekly Full

Daily Incremental

Enable granular recovery

Optional. Enable this option if you want to restore individual mailbox and public folder objects from the database backup.

Other configuration

Do not select Perform snapshot backups.

To ensure that transaction logs are deleted regularly include all databases for a storage group in a full backup policy. Or specify the storage group (not individual databases) in the backup policy.

See About Exchange backups and transaction logs.