Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Agent

Donald (haha, just kidding Mark, I couldn't resist),

You can also utilize multiple data streams on an Exchange backup just like any other policy. If you have this option set, you can let NBU break all the Storage Groups and Logs into their own stream, or you can manage this yourself. I find I prefer to let NBU manage it, when we do this, and just use the Microsoft Information Store:\ directive so I don't have to worry about other Exchange admins making changes to the SG configuration that I don't have defined, and thus missing data.

It's very easy to configure, but I highly recommend running through some restore tests since you're changing the method of data protection.

Have fun,

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06/15/2009 02:15 PM

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Subject	Re: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Agent

Works great, backing up about 600GB here using it. Point your selection list at your information store (i.e. Microsoft Information Store:\) and run a full. The full backups all the data files and log files then truncates the log files. Differential incrementals backup and truncate the log files, cumulative incrementals backup but do not truncate the log files. You can restore as long as you have your latest full and all logs up to the point in time you want to recover to (not unlike standard backups.) Restores can be a little tricky version to version (different options) but for the most part it works great. Recovery storage groups are the easiest, but your exchange admin might want to chime in on this.

-Jonathan

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Agent

Hi all,

We’re using the Netapp “Snapmanager for Exchange” software to make Exchange backups right now. We use it to quiesce Exchange in some way and create a Netapp snapshot of the drives. Those drives are mounted to another NT server and backed up as drive letters.

The upshot of this is that every day we backup the entire 1.4 TB Exchange database.

I’d like to get out of this business.

Can you folks using the NB Exchange Agent let me know the quickie details of how it works (can I do incrementals?) and how it’s working out for you?

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