Backup Exchange Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008

How to back up Exchange Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008?

Windows Server 2008 is the successor of Windows Server 2003, a major improvement with more advanced features and better performance, but the new Windows Server Backup built in Windows Server 2008 does not have the capability to do backup for the Exchange Server 2007 in the same fashion that the old NTBackup from Windows 2003 did: not support for the Exchange streaming APIs. You can dismount databases and take a VSS backup, but that's not a very Exchange-friendly method. Many administrators have complained this to Microsoft, but at least there is no new version out to include the Windows Server Backup working well with Exchange Server 2007. However, it is an important task for Exchange Server administrators to back up their Exchange Server data in case of any accidental disasters, so finding an alternative way to make a simple backup of the Exchange becomes their main concerns.

Exchange backup software for Exchange 2003/2007/2010

Once I ran into a post from Phil Carter on the June Exchange team blog, it said administrators could copy ntbackup.exe, ntmsapi.dll, and vssapi.dll from C:\windows\system32 on a Windows 2003 server, and then put them in a folder on Server 2008, and run NTBackup on their Exchange databases. I haven't tried this, and don't know if it works, but it could be an option for those who insist on having access to NTBackup functionality. Maybe you can use DPM (Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager), a backup utility by Microsoft, but it has some limitations and can't satisfy more requirements.

Now a cost-effective and reliable third-party Exchange Server backup software can be taken into consideration, here I would like to recommend you an Exchange Server 2007 backup software which can backup Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008: EaseUS Todo Backup Advanced Server.

Backup Exchange Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008

It can back up Exchange Server without interrupting your work, perform full backup, incremental backup and differential backup to save your storage space, schedule backup to protect your Exchange Server anytime, files and folders backup to secure Exchange data, backup to tape, network and other safe places, restore Exchange Server in minutes in case of failure, etc. As a powerful Exchange Server backup software, EaseUS Todo Backup Advanced Server works well with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 as well as Windows Server 2000/2003/2008.