Dell,
Thanks for reply. I knew there is a limit on exchange, but I didn't have
a time to investigate. If he says that he has 12 customers, I believe
him.
I opened PMR with tech support, and one of the suggestions was to
register 12 nodes for TDP on Exchange server (they have to confirm
that).
In this case we would be doing the backup for service provider, he is
ASP for exchange, and 12 customers are 12 end-users for exchange.
I know that would be easier for us just to provide backup service for
asp, so we can register one TDP node and in the case of the disaster we
would just restore whole exchange server.
But his customers want guarantee from us, that in any case (asp closes
the business, run away, don't care any more...) that they can get their
data back. That's why we are going through this hassle of trying to make
this to work, (still on theoretical level).
Can you please give me your opinion about following scenario?
We register 12 TDPs on exchange (we will be doing the backup-so admin
access is not the issue); for each end-user we backup only their
particular database; in case of the disaster, end-user builds exchange
server on their site; we install tdp; give them one of the twelve tdp
nodes user name and password to connect to tsm server; and at that point
(I think) when they launch tdp, they select restore, and all what they
can see on tsm server is their exchange database.
Thanks in advance.
Joe Crnjanski
Infinity Network Solutions Inc.
Phone: 416-235-0931 x26
Fax: 416-235-0265
Web: www.infinitynetwork.com
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Del Hoobler
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:15 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Exchange backup
Joe,
Are you sure about the details here? Microsoft Exchange Server
only supports four (4) storage groups for any one server.
Are you referring to databases? (There can be five (5) databases
for each storage group.) In addition, any end-user "customer" that
will be doing restores has Admin access to the Exchange Server
and therefore has access to ALL of the data on the server.
If the service provider will provide the backup service, they will
also most likely want to provide the "restore" piece as well.
I wouldn't want to put the restore control into the hands
of one of the end-user "customers" that I am providing this service to.
You could have multiple customers per Exchange Server,
but you would need to maintain control over backups and restores
in order to maintain confidentiality of the data for each customer.
Thanks,
Del
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 04/13/2005
03:59:49 PM:
> Hi All,
>
> I have potential customer who is ASP for Exchange.
>
> On server that he is considering for backup, he is running exchange
> server and there are 12 storage groups (12 customers). He is
considering
> that server for backup.
> My question is, if we backup this server, and we need to restore it,
is
> it possible for his customers to restore just corresponding data. They
> would like to build exchange server on each customer's location, than
we
> install TDP for each customer, and in case of disaster they restore
from
> our TSM server.
> I just don't know how to prevent their customer to access all 12
storage
> groups.
>
>
> I'm afraid even to ask how many licenses we would need in this case.
It
> is one exchange server, but 12 different customers. I would say one,
but
> opinions of this group are always welcome.
>
>
> Joe Crnjanski
> Infinity Network Solutions Inc.
> Phone: 416-235-0931 x26
> Fax: 416-235-0265
> Web: www.infinitynetwork.com
>
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