Restoring backups of another virtual machine

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By using Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server, you can access backups of another virtual machine on IBM® Storage Protect server and restore the backup.

About this task

You can restore database and mailbox backups to a different Database Availability Group (DAG) node than the original backup node.

The following scenario assumes that you have Exchange virtual machines in your virtual environment: vm1 and vm2. You want to enable Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server on vm2 to access and restore database and mailbox backups on vm1 and vm2.

Procedure

  1. Configure self-contained application protection to protect Microsoft Exchange Server data on vm1 and vm2.
  2. Back up vm1 and vm2 by issuing the dsmc backup vm command on the command-line interface.
  3. On vm2, install Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server and configure the software for Exchange Server data protection in a VMware environment.
  4. To enable Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server on vm2 to access backups on vm1 and vm2, issue the set access command as shown in the following examples: 
    dsmc set access backup -type=vm vm1 vm2_vss
    dsmc set access backup -type=vm vm2 vm2_vss
  5. Restore database or mailbox backups on vm1 or vm2.