Backing up Exchange 2007 with ntbackup locally

As you certainly know the new backup program that comes with Windows Server 2008 is not capable of backing up Exchange 2007. You have to use DPM or some other third-party VSS-aware Backup-Tool. Some months ago, Microsofts Exchange Team finally blogged about a special plugin to come which re-enables the Windows Server Backup in Windows Server 2008 to do the trick again. That was on June 18th. Now it´s october and the community is still waiting. Now me, I was tired of waiting and as I read the comments I found a person called "Phil Carter" trying to copy the old ntbackup files to the win2008 machine claiming that would work. So I decided to test that. I tried to just copy the "old" ntbackup over to my 2008 machine and let´s see how it goes. At first, I virtualized a w2003x64 Server to get the x64 versions of

ntbackup.exe,
ntmsapi.dll and
vssapi.dll.

Done. Took these three files and copied them to a new created folder in the 2008 machine´s root. Launched it, selected the local Exchange Store and hit backup. And voila, it did the job and Exchange successfully purged the log files of the mailbox store and also of the public folder store. The eventlog of the W2008 Exchange Server 2007 says started with id 210, successful, ended with 213, successfull.
Now I was wondering..wow..so easy..let´s check the backup file. So I extracted the bkf with ontrack powercontrols and mounted the source with powercontrols and voila: My Test-Mailboxes all were there and everything was fine.
Now don´t get me wrong here. This streaming backup scenario certainly is not a replacement for a TRUE 2007 vss aware exchange live backup. But it´s something to start with and finally I am able to backup my Exchange 2007 without a special foreign backup solution.