Imagine a world in which you had diligently backed up data in your Active Directory and Exchange environment every day, carefully labeling your tapes and filing them away to an off-site storage facility in case you one day encountered a server failure. Continuing in our Imaginationland, pretend that a real scenario arose in which you had none of your domain controllers, Exchange systems, backup servers, or any of the environment in which the backups were created, but you still need to recover some of your mail data. Would you take comfort in the knowledge that your recovery tapes were a short drive away?
If you’re using Symantec’s Backup Exec product, I wouldn’t be so sure. Read on for more of my rant on Symantec… and partially Microsoft.