E-Mail Backup Processes

Exchange Backup and Recovery

We back up the Exchange system exclusively for disaster recovery purposes in the event that we need to rebuild it. Exchange does not provide single mailbox recovery; it is a single database storage system. Recovery of a mailbox would require rebuilding the Exchange system onto an alternate system and the restoration of the database for all users. 

Exchange backups are not incremental. Rather, they are snapshots of the messaging database at the time of the backup cycle. Database snapshots are copied to tape and kept for 30 days before the tapes are recycled and the contents are overwritten.

UConnect Backup and Recovery

UConnect is client-server based messaging system, which uses single message instance in a database storage environment. All messages for all users are stored within a single database, which is backed up on nightly basis. Backups of the UConnect system are performed exclusively for disaster recovery purposes in the event that we need to rebuild the system. UConnect does not provide for a single mailbox recovery.

UConnect backups are not incremental. Rather, they are snapshots of the messaging database at the time of the backup cycle. Database backups are kept for fourteen (14) days before the tapes are recycled and the contents are overwritten.