Operational Best Practices
To successfully back up or restore an operation, follow some best practices:
Document your backup and restore procedures.
Ensure copies of the backups are stored in an alternate location.
Check your backup monitoring and logging system every day to ensure the Exchange server backups are successful from the previous night.
Perform a trial backup and restore on a monthly or quarterly basis to ensure your solution is working and to keep your restore skills up to snuff.
De-duplication technologies will benefit your backup media space consumption.
If you use tape storage for your backups:
Routinely clean the tape drives according to manufacturer specifications.
Do not overuse tapes. Discard them after they reach the maximum number ...
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