Solving the Microsoft Exchange Backup Dilemma

By Edward Lim, General Manager, Acronis Asia | Apr 7, 2009

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Microsoft Exchange is one of the most used ‘filing cabinets’ in today’s office, where meetings are scheduled, documents are shared and business is conducted. For most organisations, this makes the Microsoft Exchange server mission critical – imagine how much you would lose in productivity and revenue if even one of your servers went down. Also, that same ‘filing cabinet’ has to be fully accessible for legal reasons because quite often organisations are required to retain auditing information – including email.

Microsoft Exchange administrators need to know how they can protect Exchange data and recover it quickly with the least amount of impact on operations. There are several automated recovery and restoration solutions on the market that compete for an administrators’ attention, so understanding the difference between product offerings is critical to determining which solution will work best for your business.

Microsoft Exchange comes with its own recovery solutions, but even a highly experienced administrator rushing through page after page of instructions will take hours – sometimes even days – to complete a recovery, creating an unacceptable business risk. Not only are resident Exchange backup solutions time-consuming, but it’s also impossible to tailor them or segment the backup process to make it a faster, less daunting task.

Third-party backup and recovery solutions specifically designed for Exchange can deliver a range of benefits including reduced strain on IT personnel, the ability for inexperienced staff to perform the restore, reduced downtime, flexible backup options and significant overall cost saving. More importantly, it gives confidence that, in the event of a catastrophe, a full restore is at their fingertips.