Manage backups for mailbox databases

- [Instructor] Let's use Windows Server Backup…to backup our e-mail.…Before we do that, let's take a look…at a couple of options when backing up Exchange.…The first of course is Windows Server Backup,…but you can also use third-party programs…such as Backup Exec, Arcserve, Acronis, and others.…What's backed up?…Well, you've got e-mail of course, the e-mail database.…You've got public folders which are now part of…the mailbox database in Exchange Server 2016,…and you've got no item-level backup.…

Now, that's true of only the Windows Server Backup.…If you use many of these different third-party…programs listed, then you can do item-level backup.…What that means is if you want to restore…a single piece of e-mail, you can do that…with a third-party program.…You cannot with Windows Server Backup…without doing a lot of extra steps…which I'm going to show you in upcoming videos.…The disadvantage to the third-party programs…are that they cost a lot more,…and you generally need a dedicated server…in order to use the third-party programs.…