BE11D Exchange Agent Install on a Cluster

[Cbernard]

 Hi there,

How do I install the BU11D Exchange Agents on a pair of clustered Exchange 2003 servers?

I have a dedicated backup server with BU11D, SQL agents (the box also backus up a SQL 2005 cluster), and exchange agents installed. BE11 "knows" about the SQL cluster and I can sucessfully backup SQL databases.

But I just can't figure out how to install the Exchange agents. The manual isn't much help - suggesting I follow the local install option but that wants me to install all of BU as well as the Exchange agent on the cluster nodes, obviously not what I want to do!

So, can someone please tell me how to get the Exchange agents on the cluster nodes?

Cheers

[Marksw · Accepted solution]

 Push the remote agent to both physical node on the cluster.
Then in you backup selection you want to backup the virtual exchange cluster node names.

Mark

[Cbernard]

 Ahhhh! Now you've pointed it out, it's so obvious!

Many thanks.

Bernard

[shirmal]

Hi Bernard,

As Mark says, backup the physical noe resources using the physical node name, and any shared resources using the virtual node name.

Have a look at http://www.backupexecfaq.com/faq/getting-started/backing-up-veritas-cluster-server.html

It's the concepts for what to backup whether you're using a VCS cluster or otherwise

Hope this helps

---cheers

shirmal