Hi Del,

Sorry to say, but I am having problems with Cheyenne ArchServer for
Exchange. Their new release is able to backup/restore messages and
mailboxes, and Exchange Administrators are really upset with the lack of
this capability for ADSM Agent.

Any news ? It is a critical point for ADSM in the Exchange market.

best regards,
Rodrigo

>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
>----------------------------------------------------
>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 menti
>> because we want to install the software again. We only test it the fi
>> time for a short period. The request from our side is when somebody l
>> their mailbox, in other words individual mailbox, we want to restore
>> individually without affecting the Exchange server at all. Unfortunat
>> ADSM software only allows a full restore of the Exchange server datab
>> a separate machine and then to select the individual mailbox required
>> then to copy it to the original server. Can you please get some
>> clarification on this because we know of two products that can suppor
>> individual mailbox restore function without needing a full database r
>> and it is very strange to me that IBM did not develop the software in
>> 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
>>