Thanks for the help everyone. I will give the various options a try
while I wait for the ADSM solution.


Mark L. Evans - MCSE
mevans AT co.slc.ut DOT us
Network Administrator
Salt Lake County Information Services


On Friday, February 06, 1998 2:48 PM, Daniel Thompson
[SMTP:thompsod AT USAA DOT COM] wrote:
> Mark,
>
>   The ADSM ConnectAgent for Exchange is something a lot of us are
waiting
> on with bated breath.  It is due 1st quarter '98.  There is a ADSM
> teleconference on 02/25 and I am hoping (without having any inside
info)
> that they will announce the date then.
>
> Currently, you have 2 options.  Purchase Seagates BackupExec and it's
ADSM
> and Exchange modules.  BackupExec uses Exchange's APIs to access the
> Exchange DB and can access ADSM as a virtual tape drive.
>
> The second option is to stop Exchange nightly and invoke ADSM backups
of
> the files.  This is not a bad interim solution.  If you have extra
hard
> drive space on your exchange servers, then you can drop Exchange, copy
the
> files to another local hard drive, start Exchange and then use ADSM to
> backup the copies.  This is handy as you can do a really fast recovery
of
> Exchange to the last backup version.
>
> Good luck,
>   Dan T.
>
> ----------
> > From: Mark Evans <MEvans AT CO.SLC.UT DOT US>
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: ADSM and Exchange 5.0?
> > Date: Thursday, February 05, 1998 4:30 PM
> >
> > We are in the middle of setting up our NT backups to the ADSM system
> > this week. I understand a client for SQL exists but not for Exchange
> > Sever. How are others of you backing up your Exchange servers? Is
this
> > even possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark L. Evans - MCSE
> > mevans AT co.slc.ut DOT us
> > Network Administrator
> > Salt Lake County Information Services