Notice:
The testing done on this project was time consuming. However, I would rather corrupt my test servers than the production ones. I have found that if the databases are small enough it is better to dismount the databases and stop IIS. (really do not need to stop IIS but since it runs OWA it will not hurt). Once that is done just copy the files in the MDBDATA folder to another folder. I have tested with NTBackup and I have lost data everytime I did a restore.
With the databases cleanly shutdown and IIS off I could copy and paste all I wanted and I do not lose anything in the databases. My next test will be with Symantec Veritas 10d. I will do an Exchange Data restore and a whole server restore. I save this one for my last.

Migrate RedHat Linux ES3 to ES4 running VMWare GSX
Server: Dell SC1420 Dual Processor 2 Gigs of RAM
Vitrual Servers: Server 2000 running Exchange 2003.

Current Information:
Server Odin (server being upgraded)
Server Zeus (server that is already on RHES 4
Running Red Hat Linux 3.0 for O/S —->Moving to Red Hat Linux 4.0
Running GSX Server 3.2.1 for VM —->Moving to Virtual Server 1.01
Drive Space:
Odin: 86gigs free
Zeus: 227gigs free
Server Zeus CPU Load Before

Server Zeus CPU Load Before

Test Layout (Test Run01)
Drive Image XML http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm
VM Server runing XP Pro.
Created 2 Virtual Disk. One for backup and second one for restore. 3 Disk Total
C: XP Pro Boot
E: Backup Disk
F: Restore Disk

Backup to Drive E
No big issues with this. Just read the screens.

Restore:
I had to boot off the CD and do a fixmbr from the XP Recovery Console.
It does have the install for XP Pro on Restore disk and it does ask me for a password to access disk.
Rebooted and it did not work.
Fixboot did not work unless c: was included.