[i_am_puddy]

Hi All-
I'm new to BES Administration so please bear with me. I performed an ntbackup of the SQL database on my BES (v4.0) and the file came back as only 11Kb in size. The data on the server is a little over 100MB in size. Is this typical or is there a better way of backing that database up? Thanks in advance!

[ckent]

Ntbackup typically will not backup any open files, sql and exchange databases fall into this category. You can either use a backup agent from a third party vendor (i.e. Veritas/Symantec) to hit the live database, or do it directly from osql and backup the flat file dump.

For example from the command line:

osql -E -i
backup database besmgmt to disk = "e:\backup\besmgmt.bak"
go
quit