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Exchange Backup

Daniel_Westendo
Not applicable

‎12-06-2006 09:55 AM

I was wondering how exactly does this program backup the Exchange database? Does it export a .pst file for each mailbox? If not how? Also, what are the implications as far as restoring? What would be required to restore if the entire server went down? Thanks for the help.
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Keith_Langmead
Level 6

‎12-06-2006 10:04 AM

Assuming the Exchange agent is installed, Backup Exec connects direct to Exchange and backs up the contents of all the mailboxes, pubic folders, settings etc, eg the entire Information Store. To do a restore of the entire system, you would need to restore the Exchange program files, system state information for the server, and the information store itself.

Note however doing a normal restore is an all or nothing approach, eg you get the entire thing as it was at the time of the backup, however their are other systems in place, eg recovery storage group, and something else new with v11 which I'm not very familiar with yet so can't really comment, which will allow you to recover individual parts of the Information Store, eg mailboxes etc, rather than the entire thing.
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Russ_Perry
Level 6
Employee

‎12-07-2006 11:49 AM

Backup Exec can either do an API backup, connecting via the the Exchange backup client, ESEBCLI2.DLL. This can do full, differential, and incremental backups of the Exchange databases and log files. You can also do a VSS or Volume Shadow Copy Service backup of the those databases. This creates a Microsoft VSS snapshot of the Exchange databases for backup. As was mentioned, new to BEWS 11d, you do what called a GRT or Granular Restore Technology enabled backup. This allows you to back up the Exchange databases with either the API or VSS method and enables you to restore individual mailboxes and messages from this database backup. The GRT process does not use .pst files but extracts mailbox info from the database and uses the MAPI subsystem to restore it.

You can restore a message, mailbox using GRT. You can restore database back to its original location with a VSS backup or API backup. You can redirect a restore of a database to another server or to the Recovery Storage Group with an API backup. Finally, if you need to recover the entire Exchange server, check out http://support.veritas.com/docs/235756 for the process.

Russ
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