Re: [ADSM-L] exchange 2010

Del, 
Can you elaborate a little more?
How is the separate invocation as you showed below different from doing 
   TDPEXCC BACKUP * FULL /MINIMUMBACKUPINTERVAL=720 /PREFERDAGPASSIVE

?
Thanks
Wanda

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Del Hoobler
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 3:49 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] exchange 2010

Hi Remco,

The PREFERDAGPASSIVE tells DP/Exchange to only back up an active database if 
there are no current healthy passive copies of the database. If no healthy 
passive copy is available, the backup is made from the active copy.

Most of the DAG backup best practices and methodology is in the Exchange book 
under "Database Availability Group (DAG) backups":


http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSTG2D_7.1.1/com.ibm.itsm.mail.exc.doc/c_dpfcm_bup_replica_exc.html?lang=en


The key to "load balance" when setting up the scheduled backup script is to 
have a separate invocation of each database.

For example:

   TDPEXCC BACKUP DB1 FULL /MINIMUMBACKUPINTERVAL=720 /PREFERDAGPASSIVE
   TDPEXCC BACKUP DB2 FULL /MINIMUMBACKUPINTERVAL=720 /PREFERDAGPASSIVE
   TDPEXCC BACKUP DB3 FULL /MINIMUMBACKUPINTERVAL=720 /PREFERDAGPASSIVE
   TDPEXCC BACKUP DB4 FULL /MINIMUMBACKUPINTERVAL=720 /PREFERDAGPASSIVE
   TDPEXCC BACKUP DB5 FULL /MINIMUMBACKUPINTERVAL=720 /PREFERDAGPASSIVE

Then, run this command from each of the Exchange servers at or about the same 
time.



Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/30/2014
02:42:01 PM:

> From: Remco Post <r.post AT PLCS DOT NL>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date: 10/30/2014 02:42 PM
> Subject: exchange 2010
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> Hi All,
>
> we're sort of struggling to get the full backups of our exchange 
> environment completed. The good news is that the mail admins have 
> decided to split the exchange env. into many small databases, so I was 
> thinking to create a script that backups a number of databases full 
> and the rest incrementally and rotating the selection of databases to 
> be backed up fully each day.
>
> I was just wondering about the preferdagpassive parameter. If I say 
> 'backup db1,db2,db3,db4 full /preferdagpasive' and db3 and db4 are 
> active databases on this DAG node, will they or will they not be 
> backed up? In other words, is there a difference in handling for * vs. 
> explicitly naming the databases to be backed up?
>
> (of course I'll run the exact same command on the other DAG node at 
> more or less the same time to backup those databases that are passive 
> over there).
>
> --
>
>  Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,
>
> Remco Post
> r.post AT plcs DOT nl
> +31 6 248 21 622
>