In Quest’s new white paper, learn how to implement a solid data protection, recovery, compliance and e-discovery strategy for your critical e-mail data.
Exchange 2007 Data Protection and Disaster
Recovery: Defining and Executing a Strategy to
Address Compliance and Litigation Discovery
Requirements
White Paper
Published: April 2008 Authors: Peter O'Dowd, MVP Exchange Server, Blade; Valentine Boiarkine, Software Architect, Blade; Keri Farrell, Product Manager, Quest Software Contributors: Scott Lang, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Quest Software For the latest information, please see http://www.quest.com/recovery-manager-for-exchange White Paper: Exchange 2007 Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Contents Contents .......................................................................................................................................................2 Summary ......................................................................................................................................................3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................3 Chapter 1: Creating a data protection strategy for your messaging environment...................................4 Service Level Agreements .......................................................................................................................4 Creating a Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Strategy.................................................................5 Gathering organizational requirements for data protection and recovery...........................................5 Recovery Point Objective .........................................................................................................................5 Recovery Window.....................................................................................................................................6 Restoration Time Objective .....................................................................................................................7 Obtaining sign-off .....................................................................................................................................8 Chapter 2: Implementing Comprehensive Data Protection ......................................................................9 Traditional Backup...................................................................................................................................9 Continuous Data Protection ....................................................................................................................9 Brick Level Recovery............................................................................................................................. 10 Creating a Backup Strategy.................................................................................................................. 11 Selecting the backup solution.............................................................................................................. 11 Chapter 3: Data Recovery ........................................................................................................................ 13 Selecting a Recovery Strategy.............................................................................................................. 13 Recovery situations............................................................................................................................... 14 Providing dial-tone ................................................................................................................................ 15 Recovering from a database or server failure (server level recovery)........................................... 15 Recovering from site level disasters.................................................................................................... 16 Brick level recovery ............................................................................................................................... 17 Recording recovery results and amending your disaster recovery plan............................................ 17 Chapter 4: Compliance and Data Discovery ........................................................................................... 18 Implementing archiving ........................................................................................................................ 18 Discovery ............. [download for more]