Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server capabilities
Data Protection for Microsoft™ Exchange Server helps you to protect and manage Exchange Server environments by facilitating the backup, restore, and recovery of Exchange Server data.
The following table lists the tasks that you can perform with Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server:
| Feature | Referred to as: | More information: |
|---|---|---|
| Back up Exchange Server databases by using Microsoft VSS | VSS backup | VSS data backups |
| Back up Exchange Server Database Availability Group (DAG) databases to a common node so that you can manage all DAG members with a single policy | Back up to DAG node | Managing Exchange Database Availability Group members by using a single policy |
| Back up databases to the IBM Storage Protect server by using an alternate system to a production system | Offloaded backup | Offloaded VSS backups |
| Restore database backups that are on IBM Storage Protect storage to their original location | VSS restore | VSS restore characteristics |
| Restore database backups that are on local shadow volumes by using file-level copy mechanisms | VSS Fast Restore | VSS fast restore processing |
| Restore database backups that are on local shadow volumes by using hardware-assisted volume-level copy mechanisms | VSS Instant Restore | VSS instant restore processing |
| Restore a database backup to a recovery database, alternate database, or relocated database | Restore into | VSS backups that are restored to alternate databases |
| Restore individual mailboxes and mailbox item-level data from Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server backups | Mailbox restore | Restoring mailbox data |
| Set up remote computers in the same or a different domain to manage Exchange Server backup and restore operations. | Remote system management | Managing Data Protection for Exchange Server installations remotely |
| Query the managed capacity for database backups that are on local shadow volumes | query managedcapacity command | Query Managedcapacity command |
| Delete a backup of an Exchange Server database | delete backup command | Delete backup command |
| Manage policy for database backups that are on local shadow volumes | policy commands | Query policy command |
| Integrate with IBM Storage Protect Snapshot | Advanced VSS support | Transitioning Exchange Server backups from IBM Storage Protect Snapshot to IBM Storage Protect |
| Manage IBM Storage Protect database backup policy | Server policy | How policy affects backup management on Data Protection for Exchange Server |
| Issue the restorefiles command to restore database backups to flat files without involving the Exchange Server | restorefiles command | Restorefiles command |