Exchange granular enabled backups are currently not supported for differential or cumulative incremental backups

[Bharath_Achar]

Additional information regarding "Exchange granular enabled backups are currently not supported for differential or cumulative incremental backups" warning message

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH155566

Can any one provide latest update on this. As I have tested and I can see GRT backup working fine for exchange DAG.

Please lemme know on this.

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

This is still the case in 7.5. Please bear in mind that Incremental backups are in essence Log backups, so no individual mail item can be selected from there for restores.

See Limitations and conditions for restores using Exchange Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) topic in NBU 7.5 for Exchange Admin Guide.

Extract:

■ This feature only supports full and user-directed backups. NetBackup lets you

create a complete policy for disaster recovery, with all the various types of

schedules. However, you cannot restore individual items from an incremental

backup. 

[Mouse]

GRT works only with DB backups, and this is because DB shoudl be mounted and presented for enumeration.

Exchange so called "Incremental" backups are mere log backups that only Exchange knows how to deal with and where to apply. 

There may be progress in VMware-based Exchanges once Accelerator for VMware start support Exchange databases, but this is not expected to happen in 7.6