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Hi all, Has anyone got any advice on the best way to backup Exchange mailboxes (Exchange 5.5) running on a Windows 2000 server? We already use rsync on a number of other Windows boxes for general file backup. I've read that even if you get backups of the Exchange mailbox files, then it's really tricky to get the mailboxes back into Exchange if the server dies. Anyone got any tips on

I am backing up customers data over a vpn using rsync. Someone requested to sign up for my offsite backup and they have exchange. I am wondering the best way to backup exchange with rsync. Can I just stop the services before the backup and then restart them afterward. Their uptime isn't critical so being down for an hour at 1am or something like that wouldn't be too bad. Any help

We are planning on moving a large amount of Exchange mailboxes to UNIX mbox format. My question is, does anyone know of any projects out there or of any tools that can assist in this conversion? Thanks Josh