Why is it important to backup an Exchange database?
Microsoft Exchange server is used by many businesses all over the world for email exchange and communication. However, an Exchange server is prone to failure due to logical and physical errors, database corruption, hard disk failure, virus infection and many other reasons. Failure of an Exchange server can halt critical business operations in organizations and it is essential to restore the Exchange database in the event of a disaster. Creating regular backups or taking a backup copy of your Exchange mailboxes and mail data is therefore very important. In this article, we describe the steps to back up the Exchange database and Exchange server mailboxes.
How to backup an Exchange database on Windows?
You can back up the Exchange database with the following methods
- With Windows Server backup (WSB)
- Export the EDB file to PST with EdbMails
- Backup mailboxes with EdbMails Exchange backup