Listen to Del, since he's accredited for authoring brickback.doc, good doc
Del.
To make a long story short, NO to your question. You will find no bricklevel
option in the TDP for exchange, nor will you find mention of the TDP in
bricklevel.doc, which I found interesting since the document is on the TDP
CD.
There has been more than enough discussion on the subject here, just type
exchange in the adsm.org search engine, it's all very good reading. The main
consensus is that the reason TSM does not do bricklevel is because of the
way the Exchange's API's are written, and any backup that states that it can
is careless and unsafe.
On the other hand, since there are backup vendors out there who are selling
bricklevel solutions, TSM has given it's customers a solution as well.
Bricklevel backups and restores using exmerge and pst's. Although this could
always be done before, Del has now documented it and gave us a few shortcuts
using ini files for those of us that only want to grab those "VIP"
mailboxes.
Although I don't agree that this a "true" bricklevel solution, I do applaud
Del in documenting it and giving us a safe and workable solution along with
sample files and quick start instructions.
Thanks,
Mark B.
-----Original Message-----
From: Del Hoobler [mailto:hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:02 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: backup/restore philosophy for Exchange
Neil,
Data Protection for Exchange version 5.1.5 contains
detailed instructions on doing mailbox level backup
and restore using a combination of ExMerge and the
ITSM BA client (with subfile backup).
It also contains sample versions of script files
and sample .INI files for setting this up.
Instead of me going into detail in this forum,
please obtain the 5.1.5 version and read the
BRICKBACK.DOC file that is included in the package.
Thanks,
Del
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Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com
- Never cut what can be untied.
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> Ok, I have TDP for Exchange v2.2 backing up the databases on
> Exchange5.5. We were using Backup-Exec previously, and the NT
> adminstrator tells me they backed up and restored mailboxes
> individually. I can't find anything about individual mailboxes in the
> redbook, does TDP have this option? If not, how would I restore one
> user's mailbox without wiping new mail off the server?
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