NTBackup question

[mcseguy9]

Hello everyone. I have a friend who has a small business. He runs Windows SBS 2003 and Exchange Server 2003. He's using NTBackup to backup his data and e-mail server information stores and logs. He has a full backup running weekly and incremental backups running the other six days of the week. He backs up to USB hard drives.

I was looking through the backup information and the event viewer and everything appears to be fine. There are no error messages, nothing in Event Viewer to indicate any problems with the backups, etc. However, when I go into NTBackup and look at what's available in the Restore and Manage Media tab I'm finding that the Exchange stuff doesn't appear to be backed up.

Looking at the full backup it does show the information store, and when I expand it I see Log Files, Mailbox Store and Public Folder Store. The problem is that they're all empty. When I click on each one all I see in the right window pane where the data should be visible is No entries found.

Obviously this is extremely bizarre because, as I said, there are no errors from the backup jobs running. Event Viewer says everything is working fine and the reports that I can view in NTBackup say the same thing. It's very bizarre.

Any ideas?

[Welshjim]

mcseguy9
NTBackup allow you to include/exclude specific files.
See screenshot.

[mcseguy9]

mcseguy9
NTBackup allow you to include/exclude specific files.
See screenshot.

Hi Welshjim and thanks for the reply. However, I don't understand what this has to do with my problem. The backup that was created was set to backup the entire information store and nothing is showing up as having been backed up, yet there are no errors to indicate problems and even the logs say everything was backed up fine. Very strange...