Proper way to back up Exchange 2007?

[Warren]

Was hoping someone here with experience could help me. I need to know which files need to be backed up and with which configuration settings in Syncovery to do a complete and restorable backup of Exchange 2007.

[KDB]

iM ALSO LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER TO THIS WITH EXCHANGE 2010. DOES BC HAVE AN ANSWER FOR US SO WE MAY BUY THE PRODUCT? THANKS. (oops all upcase, butterfingers after all the holiday parties)

[superflexible]

Sorry, no, I am not sure. This is a generic file-level backup utility which requires the user to know what to back up.

[duomenox]

I highly reccommend looking into a solution that specifically supports Exchange 2007/2010.
We use Microsoft DPM (System Center 2012) for our Exchange backups.

The solution needs to support VSS (specifically Exchange's VSS writer)... if Exchange is not properly supported there is a possibility that you could corrupt the datastore and cause yourself a really big problem.

You may be able to script the Exchange VSS writer to take a snapshot then use another tools to take the backup from the VSS Snapshot. Honestly, I would just find a tool that supports Exchange backups natively and go with that. Is it really worth your job to save a few dollars? If you corrupt the Exchange DB and/or cannot restore a backup you job will definately be on the line.