The ability to perform a mailbox backup or restore using backup exec has
been around since version 7.0 or earlier, that is at least 5 years. It can
will increase the amount of data to be backed up by 5X or more. May work
fine with smaller mail servers but is not feasible in a large environment.
Our test IS was 10 GB and mailbox level backups were near 65 gb. Our IS
total now is in excess of 400 GB.

There are ways to accomplish this with TSM but it will significantly
increase the size of your backups.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Remco Post [mailto:r.post AT SARA DOT NL]
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 10:38 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: veritas backup exec client and TSM server


Hi all,

one of my users pointed out to me that veritas backup exec 9.1 supports a
few features that could make this a usefull product for them:

1- restore of single mailboxes or messages in exchange
2- TSM server as storage
3- better centralisation of backup logging for non-TSM administrators

This does indeed seem to be the case. So now my question is, does anybody
have experience with such a set-up? What are the up and down-sides of an
environment with veritas clients on a TSM client? In particular the first
and the third feature do appeal to them, since restoring a single mail
message now takes them about 3 days!

The other question one might ask, is IBM ever going to wake up and realise
that these features are a show-stopper for implementations of their product
in an exchange environment? It now seems we have a viable alternative to
spent
our money (hint!!!).

-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten,

Remco Post

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