Question : Exchange 2003 Redundancy/Replication

Hello People,

Have a quick query regarding redundancy/replication of an Exchange server (Exchange 2003)
We had downtime of a day due to the private information store being corrupted and as the database was so large the repair of the exchange server took almost all day..

As we were doing this the client could not send/recieve any mail..as they are very dependant on email this downtime was critical to thier business..

here comes the question of what the best option is to backup/mirror such a appliacation? and can this be done?

Im not too sure how it would work either but having a mirror of the Exchange so if the main information store, etc goes down the other would take over and they would have email? (but not mirroring exactly as this may copy corruption lol)

Any advice would be appreciated on the best practice?

Thanks

Answer : Exchange 2003 Redundancy/Replication

Hi,
To be honest the best bet is to use a SAN and have data replicating to a seperate partition.  In this case then it is pretty easy to get exchange backup and running as a cluster only points to the partition so once you change the drive letter to the one that has failed the store will come back online.

I suggest you look at some offsite backup software/suppliers such as www.keepitsafe.com as they can replicate the data for you using there software and you can recover will a very small amount of Down time.

Hope this helps!