How to free backup Exchange Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008?

Backing up Exchange Server is usually an important task for network administrators to protect their Exchange Server from unexpected disaster failure. Some admins choose the third party backup software to satisfy their more requirements, while some prefer to take advantage of the built-in free Exchange Server backup utility on Windows Server 2008 - Windows Server Backup, a complete free backup solution for Exchange Server 2010/2007/2003. Here we will talk something about how to free backup Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server Backup.

Before starting backup

Windows Server Backup is built in Windows Server 2008 and works well with Exchange Server 2010. It can allow admins to create Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)-based backups of the Exchange 2010 database, as well as to restore Exchange Server. The process of backup is not so complicated. If you haven't used Windows Server Backup to backup Exchange databases, here you should pay attention to the following things before setting this up:

• This procedure can only be performed locally on a computer running Exchange 2010 on the Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
• No remote backups - The Windows Server Backup feature must be installed on the local computer.
• Backups are done at the volume level - to perform a successful Exchange backup, you have to back up the entire volume containing the databases and logs.
• Only active DAG databases are supported - you cannot backup volumes containing passive copies of databases.

Start backups

After having installed Windows Server Backup, we can begin our backup process.

1.Start Windows Server Backup; select Backup Once under the Action menu. Then you will see the Backup Once wizard interface.
2. On the Backup options page, select Different options, and then click Next.
3. On the Select backup configuration page, select the type of backup that you want, Full server or Custom and then click Next.
4. In the next step, Select Items for Backup, for example, your exchange database and log files are stored in drive F, and then you will add it to back up. In the Advanced Settings, please choose VSS full Backup.
5. Then go to the Specify Destination Type page, here select the location where you want to store the backup. Then choose the Destination where you would like to locate the backup file.
6. On the Confirmation page, review the backup settings, if everything is ok, click Backup to start the process.

We can check the properties of the database in Exchange Management Console to confirm that the database shows the Last full backup date.

Well, this is not a complicated process to free backup Exchange Server databases using WSB, right? By the way, if you want to protect your Exchange Server by more advanced features, a reliable and cost-effective third-party backup software is recommended - EaseUS Todo Backup Advanced Server. It can perform full backup, incremental 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, 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.

EaseUS Todo Backup supports Exchange backup, refer to the tutorial How to backup Exchange 2003/2007/2010 with EaseUS Todo Backup?

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