Hello Oscar,
Windows 2008 was not yet out when NMEx 5.1 was released, so it is not
listed as supported, but it is being qualified, and it works -- mostly.
If you wish to do brick-level mailbox backups, you will need a new MAPI
support library from Microsoft, that they have not yet released. Their
current MAPI library does not work with Windows 2008.
Thanks,
_Scott
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Oscar Olsson
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:36 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Backing up exchange 2007 running on windows server
2008?
We need to back up exchange 2007 that is running on windows server 2008.
This has been more tricky than expected.
At first we figured it should work to just run the Networker module for
exchange 5.1, but that didn't seem to work. In the documentation, there
is
no mention about windows 2008 support. My guess is that NME isn't
supported on windows server 2008, is this assumption correct?
Then I started investigating if we could use NMM instead. It does seem
that it should work, but according to the documentation they have not
implemented support for any other backup levels than full yet. So if we
do
daily backups of exchange this way, the amount of storage needed on the
networker backup system will increase. Also, I guess we need a new
license
to use the NMM?
Either way, this situation feels a bit unstatisfying if my suspicions
are
true. Does anyone have more experience on this subject, and/or ideas on
how to solve this in a better way when it comes to licensing and storage
requirements?
//Oscar
Ps. Its fun to read networker documentation sometimes.
In the NMM docs, they say "If NetWorker NMM client is
installed, then the NetWorker Module for Exchange Client promotes its
own
incremental backup to a full backup to maintain the integrity of the
backup and prevent data loss." . I would translate this to:
"We were too lazy to implement support for incremental
backups so far."
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