I have to ask this question... Is there any way to tell if the exchange
backup completed successfully
at the ADSM server level? Please tell me I don't have to go to 30 Exchange
servers and look at each one.

The activity log only shows that a session started and ended. The Events log
only stated that the
command completed successfully for the client but nothing regarding the
agent and finally, the filespace
information stays blank. Has anyone come up with a way to find out?


The Mail team wants hard confirmation that the backup was successful. I
can't seem to say one way or another
unless I ship the logs back to the ADSM server on a daily basis via a
script.



Happy Holidays kiddies!
__________________________________________________
Cris Robinson
Sr. Technical Analyst
Enterprise Storage Management / ADSM
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
603.431.8400.54837
mailto:cris.robinson AT libertymutual DOT com


If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Del Hoobler [SMTP:hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 3:36 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Exchange Agent Questions
>
> Allan,
>
> The ADSMConnect Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server allows you
> to back up and restore the Information Store and Directory databases.
> It does this at the database level only.
>
> We are aware that brick level backup and restore is a function that
> customers want.  We have not yet added that function to the
> Exchange Agent due to the fact that Microsoft has not yet
> created native "backup and restore" API's to do this.
> Other products accomplish this by using non-backup/restore API's.
> It has been noted that there are performance implications.
> We hope that Microsoft will give us backup/restore API's to do this.
> Keep in mind, with Exchange 5.5, Microsoft did add the deleted item
> recovery feature that alleviates some of this pressure.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Del
>
> ===================================================
> Del Hoobler
> IBM ADSM Agent Development
> hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com
>
> ===================================================
>
> > We have several Microsoft Exchange servers that we would like to backup
> with
> > ADSM but at present we are using ARCSERVE because it offers a "Bricks
> Level
> > Backup" that facilitates the restoration of individual mailboxes.  What
> is
> > the current functionality of the ADSM Exchange agent in this area?
> >
> > Allan.