G'Day

just wonderinfg if there is a simple solution to backing up a windoes 2003 server with exchange on it, i would like to do the following.

1. i have 2 sites A: & B: and wish to have the data recreated from A: to B: incramentaly over the net ( i have cisco 877 routers with a permenant vpn between the two sites ).

2. i need a backup for fail over purposes if i have a fire or other disaster in the office i will need to be able to restore my back up or get the other site up and running as quickly as possable with a replacment windows machine.

do you have any suggestions please.

The best backup software in the world is open source and free -

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net

Awesome, brilliant perl programming. People on the mailing list always write in saying things like, "I have 600 Gb of backups on a 250 Gb drive". Unlike most open source projects, backuppc is not a team of people, it is pretty much one guy, Craig Barratt. I backup multiple windows servers to my backup servers. You have the option of backing up via samba, ssh+tar (via cygwin for windows), or using rsync or rsyncd. Great, great stuff.

Peace,
JimBass