Finding the Right Exchange Backup for Your Company

However, perhaps more important than the cost of your Exchange backup program is how well it will work for you. You need to first consider how easy it will be to install. This is not always as easy as it seems, especially if you will be exporting your backup offsite. Then, you need to consider how easy it will be to schedule your backups without you actually having to be there. In most cases, you should be able to "set it and forget it" for quite some time in the future.

Your final consideration will be how easy it is to recover your data. There are a lot of products that make it super easy to install and even easier to set the backups to run, but when it comes to recovering the data, user preferences, settings, passwords, and mailboxes, then you are in big trouble. If all you are worried about is recovering basic documents, then any product will do, but if you need to make sure that absolutely everything on your server is recoverable, including the server structure itself, then you need to make sure you have the right Exchange backup for your purposes.

No matter how secure you think your firewall is, or how well prepared your staff is for the server going down, the number of threats to any server is huge right now. Make sure you are fully protected before the worst happens to you and your data.