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Re: Exchange Backup

1999-03-26 13:06:25
Subject: Re: Exchange Backup
From: Leandro Carneiro Torres <ctorres AT SERVICE.COM DOT BR>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:06:25 -0300
Folks,
Thank very much for your precious help.

Leandro.

Del Hoobler wrote:

> Leandro,
>
> 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
>
> > People,
> > Today can I restore individual public folders or mail box of my exchange
> > database with the ADSM Agent Connect for Exchange ???
> > If not, why ??? When will we have this important feature for
> > administration of Exchange Database ???
> >
> > Thanks any help,
> > Leandro.

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