I recently reformatted my server and reinstalled the OS. I was unable to recover Exchange mailboxes from my Windows Backup that I made just before the reformatting. Backup did not recognize my backup drives as valid backup destinations and wanted to reformat them. For the future, I would like to run multiple backup software so if I can't recover or restore from one program, I may have another option. I already own Backup Exc 2012 Small Business Edition and Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 so those would be the ones I would try first.
I am looking for redundant backups of Exchange and User documents (which are redirected to the server), not multipole total backups or bare metal restores.
BUT... would a third party backup program (running on a different schedule of course) interfere with the default Windows Backup? Would there be an issue with the integrity of databases or their logs? Or the resetting of files' archive flags (if such things still exist)?
Thank you,
Gary
