Hi John,

You can't run a backup of a replica from the primary server.
You must be running that command on the passive server.

The Microsoft Exchange Replica Writer will be running on the
passive server. That is the machine you need to have
DP/Exchange and the Windows BA Client installed and
configured on.

Also keep in mind that it's the DSMAGENT (Windows BA Client)
is the node that actually sends the data to the TSM Server.
It uses the proxy capability to store the data on behalf
of the DP/Exchange node.

The service team can assist you through this.


Thank you,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/31/2014
02:47:25 PM:

> From: "Dury, John C." <JDury AT DUQLIGHT DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date: 10/31/2014 02:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Anyone else doing replica backups of exchange
> datastores? Need some help please.
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> Thanks for the reply. I agree that it sounds like a configuration
> issue. We are trying to do this via command line so it can be
> scripted and therefore automated.  I do have a problem open with IBM
> and sent them some logs and lots of information but their first was
> response was to tell me that it wasn't configured correctly as they
> were looking at early entries in the logs I sent them instead of
> further down. Lesson learned, delete all of your logs before
> recreating problem as support won't look at timestamps and first
> error they see must be the problem. <sigh> The command line I am
> using looks like this:
> C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange>tdpexcc backup <datastore>
> incr /fromreplica /backupmethod=vss /backupdestination=tsm /
> tsmoptfile="c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange\dsm.opt"
> I was getting it to create a TSM session but the session would just
> be WAITING on the server for hours and never actually did anything.
> FWIW, the datastore I am testing with is tiny.
> Now when I try running the backup on the inactive CCR replica I get:
> Updating mailbox history on TSM Server...
> Mailbox history has been updated successfully.
> Querying Exchange Server to gather component information, please wait...
> ACN5241E The Microsoft Exchange Information Store is currently not
running.
> but as I mentioned before, according to my exchange admins, that
> service should never be running on both sides of the CCR cluster.
> I have changed the dsm.opt and tdpexc.cfg options so many times with
> every option can think of which is why I was hoping someone had a
> sanitized version of their dsm.opt and tdpexc.cfg that are working
> in their environment I could look at.
>