Ok, thanks Dell and Harold, I will look into the beta program and go from
there.

Regards,
  Stefan

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Vandeventer, Harold [BS] <
Harold.Vandeventer AT da.ks DOT gov> wrote:

> Regarding using "asnode" (mentioned by Stefan) ... I see page 10 of the DP
> for Exchange install guide says: "Do not set the ASNODENAME option in the
> dsm.opt file when using DP or Exchange. Setting ASNODENAME can cause VSS
> backups and VSS restores to fail.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Harold Vandeventer
> Systems Programmer
> State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information
> Technology Services
> Harold.Vandeventer AT da.ks DOT gov
> (785) 296-0631
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Del Hoobler
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:11 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange 2010 backup and restore in DAG configuration
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> As you pointed out, if you back up from different servers, the backups
> are managed separately. This is why the User's Guide states that the
> best practice is to back up from the same server every time.
>
> It is a known requirement that it would be better if DP/Exchange
> could back them up from anywhere and manage them as a single entity
> on the TSM Server. If you are really interested in this aspect,
> please have your IBM rep send Mary Anne Filosa (IBM TSM Beta Coordinator)
> an email. There is a beta program that you might want to be a part of.
>
> Until then, there are customers that use the same DP/Exchange
> NODENAME on all of their Exchange Server to help mitigate
> some of the issues if you back them up from different Exchange servers.
> It does not solve the problem completely, but it does back them up
> under the same NODENAME.
>
> Again, the best practice as quoted from the book:
>   "Backups for a given database should be run from the
>    same Exchange server, if possible. Backups performed from
>    different Exchange servers are managed separately."
>
> Thanks,
>
> Del
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 03/13/2012
> 04:48:25 AM:
>
> > From: Stefan Folkerts <stefan.folkerts AT GMAIL DOT COM>
> > To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> > Date: 03/13/2012 04:50 AM
> > Subject: Exchange 2010 backup and restore in DAG configuration
> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am working with a customer who has an Microsoft Exchange 2010 DAG
> setup
> > and wants to implement TSM backup for mail.
> > DAG uses active and passive databases and, of course, the customer only
> > wants to backup the passive databases (replica's).
> > Each database has two passive copy's for redundancy.
> >
> > Each Exchange server has it's own node on the TSM server the passive /
> > active database float around the Exchange cluster and thus the node that
> > makes the backup changes.
> > This makes restores a bit of an issue because the data is spread amongs
> > multiple TSM nodes, we also have our doubts about the expiration of data
> > with this configuration.
> >
> > We currently run ;
> >
> > tdpexcc backup * full /tsmoptfile="D:\Program
> > Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange\dsm.opt" /EXCLUDEDAGACTIVE
> > /configfile="D:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange\tdpexc.cfg"
> >
> > The documentation doesn't give much information rather than (PDF
> warning) ;
> >
> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/topic/
> > com.ibm.itsm.mail.exc.doc/b_dp_mail_exc_guide_win.pdf
> >
> > Acrobat page 34/35.
> >
> > Can we, like we do with VMware use 'asnode' or something similar to
> place
> > the backup data in a single nodename or are there any other clever
> > supported tricks?
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Stefan
> >
>