Del,

From what you say it seems it should be a rather forwards sort of
backup-while-active and as easy to restore.

Yet in Rene's email of a short while ago today, it seems that he has to work
rather hard once the restore has been done.

I am very much questioning the need to drop BE and try the TSM Exchange
backup, as I have had extremely good results with BE, and the restore is
easy, fast and no need of manually applying logs to the database in order to
get things in shape. A simple restore, reboot, and sometimes, but rarely, an
ISINTEG.

One other issue I like with BE today, is the ability to do a full restore
including OS and have everything work in the time it takes to restore + 1
hour.

I am still not so hot on the TSM version of Intelligent Disaster Recovery,
or Bare Metal Restore as it's called here.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Del Hoobler [SMTP:hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM]
> Sent: â ðåáîáø 14 2000 14:38
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS
> Exchange
> 
> Mike,
> 
> >> Seems that a lot of you are happy with the exchange backup.
> >>
> >> So let me ask if I may :
> >>
> >> 1. Do you backup Exchange while active or do you shut down the services
> >> prior to backup ?
> 
> In order to use Tivoli Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange, your
> services must be running.  It uses the Microsoft provided APIs that were
> built to run online backups.  If you bring down the services and
> run a backup, you cannot use TDP for Exchange.  You could use
> the standard backup archive client...BUT.... and this is a big BUT...
> ...you will not get online backup data integrity checking that is built
> into the Microsoft APIs and thus TDP for Exchange. When you use
> TDP for Exchange, every page of the database is read and check-summed
> to make sure it is consistent.
> 
> >>
> >> 2. How many of you have had to restore your whole Exchange from backup,
> and
> >> how long did it take, and did it work fully or were there any glitches
> that
> >> had to be retouched to get it all running ?
> 
> I want to answer part of this question...
> You should not have to "retouch" anything.  Any if you do have to
> use ESEUTIL or whatever your favorite tool is... then we want
> to know about it because the APIs were built so that you do not
> have to do this.
> 
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Mike
> 
> 
> Del
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Del Hoobler
> IBM Corporation
> hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com