In order to back up Exchange while it's up, you need a backup product
that is 'Exchange aware', meaning it uses the Exchange APIs to back it
up.  IBM is currently working on an Exchange agent.  From the traffic on
this listserver, it sounds like quite a few other ADSM users are using
the Seagate Exchange agent along with the Seagate ADSM module to back up
Exchange to ADSM...

Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Zimmerman, Danielle [SMTP:dzimmerman AT WCUPA DOT EDU]
>Sent:  Wednesday, January 28, 1998 8:14 AM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Backing up MS Exchange files
>
>We have our ADSM server running on VM/ESA and tried to backed up our MS
>Exchange mail that is running on NT ver 4.0.   There are two mail
>database files:
>priv.edb
>pub.edb
>
>When the backup gui runs the message Access Denied is displayed for
>these files.  Alll other files in the directory are backed up.
>
>The dsmerror.log has the following errors:
>
>TransWin32RC() : Win32 RC 32 from HlOpen(): Create file
>TransWin32RC() : Win32 RC 32 from HlOpen(): Create file
>
>Does anyone have any idea what these messages mean or why they were not
>backed up?
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>Thanks