Found - Free backup for Exchange 2007?

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I just ran accross something interesting, it appears that Microsoft have a command line tool specificly designed to test the newer VSS based backup interface of Exchange 2007. It is not overly pretty but it does appear to have both a backup and restore option and as the benchmark of whether the behind the scenes backup stuff is working should be robust.

 

The tool is described here:

BETest Tool (Windows)

and sourced from inside here:

Download details: Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework version 3.5

 

The procedure is described here in the last section (The BETest Tool):

Exchange 2007 Data Backup and Volume Shadow Copy Services

 

Probably a false alarm and crippled in some way but may be worth a look at some point for someone with an exchange 2k8 testing environment to play with.