IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for Windows, Version 4.1

What's new

Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy® Manager Version 4.1 contains several new features and changes.

Additional options for restoring personal storage folders
If you restore personal storage folders (.pst files), there are two options: Restore Mail to Unicode PST file and Restore Mail to non-Unicode PST file. Unicode .pst files can store messages in multiple languages, and are not limited to 2 GB of data. For non-Unicode .pst files, the file size must be less than 2 GB. For more information about restoring mailboxes and mailbox data, including .pst files, see Restoring an Exchange Server mailbox.
Collecting remote diagnostic data
Collecting diagnostic data for a remote system using Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager is different than collecting data for a local system. You can update the Diagnostics property page to collect the correct log and trace files for remote data collection.
Group management, reports, and status reporting
When you want to generate group reports and facilitate group status reporting, you can use the Management Console (MMC).
Managing remotely
From one Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager installation you can manage all of the Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager installations in your enterprise. You can also create groups of computers to manage. When you manage a group, the Protect, Recover, and Automate tabs change to Group Dashboard, Group Reports, and Group Commands tabs.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 support

When planning to restore Exchange Server 2013 mailboxes, there is a requirement for MAPI clients to use RPC over HTTPS (also known as Outlook Anywhere). RPC over HTTP is no longer supported. More planning information, and a link to the troubleshooting topic, is provided.

Improving mailbox history handling
To improve performance, mailbox history includes only the mailboxes from databases than are backed up. If you back up mailbox history with a version of FlashCopy Manager for Microsoft Exchange Server earlier than version 4.1, you can manually delete the old mailbox history. Details, including instructions, are provided.
Restoring mailboxes on remote systems
The process of restoring mailboxes on a remote system with Mailbox Restore Browser is a little different so specific instructions are provided in this topic. For all other mailbox restore tasks completed on remote systems, you can use the instructions provided in subsequent sections.
Restoring mailboxes directly from Exchange database files
With all Data Protection for Exchange configurations, administrators can complete an individual mailbox restore for an .edb file stored on a disk. For administrators who only want to complete individual mailbox restores from an .edb file on disk, the Mailbox Restore Only configuration option is available. The .edb file can come from a backup that mounted read-write using Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments, Tivoli Storage Manager restore files, or an offline file system copy.
Windows PowerShell and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
The Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager software includes Windows PowerShell cmdlets to complement the command-line interface functions.
Automated failover for data recovery
If you use Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager with the Tivoli Storage Manager configuration, when the Tivoli Storage Manager server is unavailable, Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can automatically fail over to the secondary server for data recovery.


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