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mdufffin
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10 years ago

Exchange agent needed for vmware vm recovery

We perform VMware ESXi 5.5 VM full backups nightly. Is the BackupExec Exchange Server Agent required when only restoring or cloning an entire VM (without intent to ever use GRT to recover Exchange da...
  • VJware's avatar
    10 years ago

    Is the BackupExec Exchange Server Agent required when only restoring or cloning an entire VM

    No

     

    does Symantecs VSS quiesce Exchange for the vmdk backup?

    Yes

     

    Symantec no longer sells the Exchange Agent for our version of BackupExec

    Which version of BE are you using ? Newer versions of BE do have the Exchange Agent, they just have been renamed to Agent for Application & Databases.