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[ADSM-L] Exchange 2010, DAGs, and Proxies? (oh my...)

2012-11-13 21:26:32
Subject: [ADSM-L] Exchange 2010, DAGs, and Proxies? (oh my...)
From: "Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT ICFI DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:23:51 +0000
Backing up two Exchange 2010 servers with the 6.3 TDP for Exchange, TSM 6.2.3 
server on Windows.
There are 6 mail data bases.  Half the mailboxdb's are active, half passive on 
each server.

I installed the TDP on each server, and we specify /EXCLUDEDAGACTIVE so that 
only the passive copies are backed up.

What I've noticed is that over time, these 2 servers have taken up much more 
space on the TSM server than I expected.
What has happened is that the active mailboxdb's have switched back and forth 
between the servers.
Over time, I've gotten copies of all 6 mailboxdb's backed up under each node 
name.
And I assume that whatever the Exchange admins are doing will continue.

Would it make sense to set up a proxy relationship so that both the Exchange 
TDPs are backing up the mailboxdb's to the same node name?
That would cut back my TSM server storage when the mailboxdb's flop around.

But the TDP book says for restores:

The restore operation must be run on the node where the backup was created.

I don't know if in this case "node" just refers to the TSM nodename, or if 
there is something about Exchange itself so that a restore from a proxied name 
doesn't work?  Is proxied a proper verb?

Anybody else run into this?


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