Clarence,

This question has been discussed a number of times on this list.
To get a full explanation, please search the archives of this list.

In short, the ADSMConnect Exchange Agent does not do mailbox
level granularity for backup and restore since the
backup/restore API that Microsoft supports does not offer it.

Mailbox level backup and restore for Exchange is a candidate
for a future release of our Exchange agent but it is not
currently in plan.  That function is NOT supported by the
Exchange backup APIs and the alternative means of providing
that capability have poor performance implications.

In addition,  Exchange 5.5 includes a feature called
"item recovery" which allows for retention of deleted
messages and folders for some configurable period of time
and recovery of these deleted items through the exchange
client interface (sort of an undelete function).
This provides a quick and easy solution for recovery of
items lost due to accidental deletion  which is the most
common type of loss.

There are ways to accomplish this through APIs not
designed for backup and restore but the scalability
of the solution becomes the issue.

Thanks,

Del

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Del Hoobler
Del Hoobler
IBM ADSM Agent Development
hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com

> Morning Clarence,
> I did some reading on the web site for ADSM regarding the above mentioned
> because we want to install the software again. We only test it the first
> time for a short period. The request from our side is when somebody looses
> their mailbox, in other words individual mailbox, we want to restore it
> individually without affecting the Exchange server at all. Unfortunately,
> ADSM software only allows a full restore of the Exchange server database to
> a separate machine and then to select the individual mailbox required and
> then to copy it to the original server. Can you please get some
> clarification on this because we know of two products that can support the
> individual mailbox restore function without needing a full database restore
> and it is very strange to me that IBM did not develop the software in the
> same matter. See the information from the web site attached.
> Thanks
>  <<Exchange detail.doc>>
> Corrie Viljoen
> Senior System Programmer (ADSM support)
> 359-1731   /   083 294 2405
> CorrieV AT Transnet.co DOT za
>