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 (VM) on the 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 VMs 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

Configure self-contained application protection to protect Microsoft Exchange Server data on vm1 and vm2.
For instructions, see:
- Step 1 (Hyper-V host): Install and configure Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V
- Step 3 (Hyper-V host): Configure Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V for application protection
On the Hyper-V host, back up vm1 and vm2 by issuing the dsmc backup vm command on the data mover command-line interface.
On vm2, install Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server and configure the software for Exchange Server data protection in a Hyper-V environment.

For instructions, see Step 2 (Guest VM): Install and configure Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server.
On the Hyper-V host, 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 
```
Restore database or mailbox backups on vm1 or vm2.