All,

I have a customer interested in purchasing a Shark to
store their Exchange data.  Today they are using TSM
and TDP for Exchange to backup their servers.  That is
working well for them, but they are interested in using
the ESS FlashCopy feature to make periodic (4-5 times
daily) copies of their Exchange data. They want this
high frequency due to the fact that they have had many
issues with corrupted data (I know, but let's not go
there :-)

If for some reason they need to restore their server,
they would like to use the latest FlashCopy image to
perform a quick restore.

My question is:  how would this work?

What would happen if I took a raw copy of the Exchange
mail store and then restored that copy outright?  What
would happen with the Exchange logs/journals?  Would I
need to reply the journals just to get Exchange to come
up? Or maybe I could use TDP for Exchange to continuously
backup the logs throughout the day to be used in the
event I restored the base Information Store from the
latest FlashCopy snapshot?


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Joshua S. Bassi
Joshua S. Bassi
Senior Technical Consultant
Symatrix Technology, Inc.
jbassi AT gloryworks DOT com