Exchange nmm. I could never make it to work. After 3 months of trial and
error, I switch back to nme.

NMM in my mind have a configuration/day to day management overhead that is
to much to handle.

this is my 2 cents comment.

LAM

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Kevin Malone <KCMALONE AT salisbury DOT edu> 
wrote:

> Everyone,
>
> Just wanted to let you all know that a major breakthrough for issues we
> have had with backing up Exchange with NMM took place
> on Friday.  EMC tech support along with a subject matter expert found that
> backups using NMM were not being saved properly to the virtual cluster
> client, but rather to the mailbox server client.  This made it impossible to
> browse any previous backups of Exchange.
>
> The issue:  We use a 3rd party application called Active Batch to do our
> backup job processing and cloning.  It has a lot more flexibility to start
> savegroups as one finishes, so we have never made use of the Networker GUI
> scheduling.  That, it seems, is the problem.  There is some issue where
> Powersnap (which is part of the NMM install) does not work properly outside
> of being run within the Networker GUI.  Since all we were doing was running
> the savegrp from a command line from within Active Batch, I am not sure of
> the exact reason, but I have asked for EMC support to respond to me with a
> specific explanation of this issue.
>
> We are still seeing that reboots of active and passive node in our
> environment is sometimes causing a file that contains the Clariion username
> and password (emcpwddb.dat) to get corrupted.  I still have an open case
> about this issue.
>
> Nonetheless, a huge breakthrough for us and for them too, I think.
>
> Kevin Malone
> Network Control Specialist
> Information Technology
> Salisbury University
> Salisbury, MD 21801
> 410-543-6298
>
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