Hi Guys, Have a customer with two VSS backups in place. One is running Symantec System Recovery (Image Backup), the other is using Attix5 for offsite. Will this cause an issue at all? I believe it will with Attix truncating the logs each night. If so, any other way to achieve an off-site backup?

Hi , Im not familiar with these 3 third part tool , but Exchange supports VSS-based backup. Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876874(v=exchg.150).aspx Wendy Liu TechNet Community Support

Hi , Im not familiar with these 3 third part tool , but Exchange supports VSS-based backup. Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876874(v=exchg.150).aspx Wendy Liu TechNet Community Support

If so, any other way to achieve an off-site backup? We are using Veeam Backup and Replication for backing up our virtual Exchange server and quite happy with it. A couple of special features that we find to be interesting: 1) Application-aware image processing functionality. It allows Veaam Backup and Replication to create transactionally consistent backup of a VM running VSS-aware applications (such as Active Directory, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint) without powering them off. Not only does it ensure successful VM recovery, as well as proper recovery of all applications installed on the VM without any data loss, but also it notifies applications about them being backed up. 2) Moreover, VB&R provides advanced options for controlling truncation of transaction logs so that you can ensure correct backup of applications that use transaction logs. The logs can be truncated after every backup job, every successful backup or not truncated at all. 3) There is additional free tool named Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013 which provides instant visibility into Exchange Backups. In a nutshell, this utility will allow fairly quick recover of old deleted folders and/or email messages. This kind of utility is great for doing granular level restores of emails, and can be applicable in a multitude of environments. Kind regards, Leonardo Muller.