Exchange backup and restore via Netbackup 6.5 Part-II

[Zahid_Haseeb]

In the series articles of Exchange Backup and Restore we show you step by step configuration of taking the backup and restore of Microsoft Exchange MailBoxes and Microsoft Information Store via Veritas Netbackup 6.5. In part-I we showed how do we take the backup of Microsoft Information Store and in part-II we show you how do we take the backup of Microsoft Exchange MailBoxes and selected Exchange MailBoxes and in other parts we will show you the restore activity

( If you wish, you can also view the other parts of this article series
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/exchange-backup-and-restore-netbackup-65-part-i
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/exchange-backup-and-restore-netbackup-65-part-iii
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/exchange-backup-and-restore-netbackup-65-part-iv
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/exchange-backup-and-restore-netbackup-65-part-v
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/exchange-backup-and-restore-netbackup-65-part-vi )

Note:-
Why do we take the backup of Exchange Server in different modes like as my article part-I and article part-II?
Its depend on your need. As the article part-I backup you can restore the whole backup of Exchange Server and you dont have the chance to restore single or particular mail accounts but if you wish to restore a single mail account or multiple mail accounts so you have a choice that you can do it if you have the Microsoft Exchange MailBoxes backup

Exchange Backup of Microsoft Exchange MailBoxes via Netbackup 6.5

Create Policy



Policy Name



Policy Type



Select Storage Unit
Note:- if you wish to know how to create and configure Disk Storage Unit you can see the below mentioned link of document
( http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/277877.htm )



Make Schedule so at that time the Backup of Exchange Information Store can triger
Click on NEW to create Schedule



Write Schedule Name



Select the Time and Day on which the Backup will triger and click ''OK''



Here the schedule is created



Select the CLIENT TAB and click on NEW for selecting the Exchange Server



Click on the RED highLighted button



Select your Exchange Server from the Network





From here the selection from Backup Selection TAB will change if we relate this article with the Part-I article
Click on the Directive Button and Select ''MS_Exchange_Mailbox'' from the Directive Set and ''Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes'' from the ''Directive''and click OK




After selection of ''MS_Exchange_Mailbox'' from the Directive Set and ''Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes'' from the ''Directive'' the window will be like this



The Final Backup Selection TAB will be like this



Now the Microsoft Exchange MailBoxes backup policy is ready :)

Backup of Selected Exchange MailBoxes

Suppose the Exchange MailBox policy is created. Double click on Microsoft Exchange MailBoxes as highlighted in the below figure.


Select the specific MailBoxes from the left pane which you wanted to backup as shown in the figure below


Now you have the MailBoxes in the below figure which you want to backup





Some informative links
http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid43_gci1294099_mem1,00.html
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Recovering-Deleted-Items-Exchange-Server-2003-Part1.html

Some important troubleshooting links (some of them valuable after restore troubles)

http://forums.msexchange.org/m_1800513666/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#1800513698
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/exchange-error-task-microsoft-exchange-server-reported-error-0x80040107-could-not-open-item-t#comment-2740161
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/cached-exchange-mode-does-not-work-after-restoring-msexchange-mailboxes#comment-2740141
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/after-abnormal-restart-exchange-server2003-mailbox-was-not-accessable

[gilbert08]

this is a nice article.