This past weekend we reviewed our backup jobs for Exchange 2007 in a CCR cluster running on Windows 2003. I noticed that we were not backing up all folders available on the system in Backup Exex 12.5. So last night I decided to those folder
We had some issues completing the backup. First off, it took 5 times longer to backup than normal even though the job rate was consistent with all previous jobs. Secondly, there were exceptions on the job completion. Those additional file could not be backed up.
Backup- \\E2K7MAIL\07b613ba-c30c-488a-9f39-d3439b9cab06$
Backup- \\E2K7MAIL\07b613ba-c30c-488a-9f39-d3439b9cab06$
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\07b613ba-c30c-488a-9f39-d3439b9cab06$\E05.log - skipped.
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\07b613ba-c30c-488a-9f39-d3439b9cab06$\E05tmp.log - skipped.
Backup- \\E2K7MAIL\36397d7f-0c05-4947-bd6f-0bbd7fed1853$
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\36397d7f-0c05-4947-bd6f-0bbd7fed1853$\E04.log - skipped.
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\36397d7f-0c05-4947-bd6f-0bbd7fed1853$\E04tmp.log - skipped.
Backup- \\E2K7MAIL\8c3e3ff3-a4c4-4149-8226-fe5d39be3a25$
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\8c3e3ff3-a4c4-4149-8226-fe5d39be3a25$\E03.log - skipped.
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\8c3e3ff3-a4c4-4149-8226-fe5d39be3a25$\E03tmp.log - skipped.
Backup- \\E2K7MAIL\938ddadb-f942-4e16-8eeb-4462e1ee78d6$
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\938ddadb-f942-4e16-8eeb-4462e1ee78d6$\E00.log - skipped.
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\938ddadb-f942-4e16-8eeb-4462e1ee78d6$\E00tmp.log - skipped.
Backup- \\E2K7MAIL\97580d0b-1892-428c-8578-7055d2f41581$
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\97580d0b-1892-428c-8578-7055d2f41581$\E06.log - skipped.
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\97580d0b-1892-428c-8578-7055d2f41581$\E06tmp.log - skipped.
Backup- \\E2K7MAIL\c2d6cced-df0e-4bcd-bfde-e50a55f2006d$
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\c2d6cced-df0e-4bcd-bfde-e50a55f2006d$\E07.log - skipped.
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\c2d6cced-df0e-4bcd-bfde-e50a55f2006d$\E07tmp.log - skipped.
Backup- \\E2K7MAIL\d1962d4e-cf04-42eb-bd06-0ed1a709c6d7$
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\d1962d4e-cf04-42eb-bd06-0ed1a709c6d7$\E01.log - skipped.
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\d1962d4e-cf04-42eb-bd06-0ed1a709c6d7$\E01tmp.log - skipped.
Backup- \\E2K7MAIL\f9b42dd1-f4aa-401c-9f2d-7f3d85496a65$
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\f9b42dd1-f4aa-401c-9f2d-7f3d85496a65$\E02.log - skipped.
Unable to open the item \\E2K7MAIL\f9b42dd1-f4aa-401c-9f2d-7f3d85496a65$\E02tmp.log - skipped.
The question is do I need to backup these particular folders/files? If we needed to perform a complete restore of the mailbox server are these files needed? I have also added system state to our backup job.
They appear to be cluster files...temp and log files.
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Thanks for the help!
-Evan