This section describes in details how to backup and restore Microsoft Exchange Server with OBM.
For a complete Exchange server backup, backup for the following components must be performed:
For Exchange server with Active Directory installed, as part of the restore, the system state of the server must also be restored. Running regular system state backups of the Exchange is therefore crucial, as it ensures that the system state data is synchronized with the Exchange database data.
The Information Store of Exchange 2003 and 2007 contains both mailbox store and public folder store data. The server stores data into two files - .edb and .stm file that forms an Exchange store repository. The default mailbox store on an Exchange 2003 server uses filename Priv1.edb and Priv1.stm; the default public folder store uses the filename Pub1.edb and Pub1.stm. The .edb file contains tables that hold metadata for all e-mail messages and other items in the Exchange store, while .stm stores native Internet content.