08-01-2012 06:00 PM
Hi,
Our Exchange server resides on a hyper-v VM. Currently, I backup the Info stores in a separate job, and then the local drives in another. Is this the recommended way of doing this or should I be backing up the VM using the agent with GRT enabled?
Also, should I be using the snapshot technology with this?
Cheers
08-01-2012 06:04 PM
If you have the Hyper-V agent, you should backup the entire VM. If GRT is enabled, you would be able to restore individual mailboxes from your VM backup. You can also restore individual files/folders from the VM backup. This is a more efficient way to backing up your Exchange VM.
Yes. You should enable AOF so that VSS will be used to snapshot the VM.