Protecting Microsoft Exchange Server data
With IBM Storage Protect Snapshot for Exchange Server, you can back up and restore Microsoft Exchange Server databases.
- Prerequisites With IBM Storage Protect Snapshot, you can back up and restore Exchange Server data and protect your Exchange Server environment.
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Backing up Exchange Server data by using VSS
By using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), you can back up Exchange Server data and mount the backup if required.
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Mounting Exchange Server backups
To see a copy of Exchange Server data from a specific point in time, mount a snapshot backup.
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Deleting Exchange Server backups
You can remove an Exchange Server backup that you created with the VSS backup method. Use this procedure only for deletions that are outside the scope of your standard policy management deletions.
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Setting data restore options in Microsoft Management Console
To optimize the data restore process for your environment, modify the default options that are available in Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
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Restoring an Exchange Server database
You can use the restore into function to restore an Exchange Server database backup to a recovery database or alternate database. You can also restore a DAG active or passive database copy to a recovery database or alternate database.
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Restoring a Database Availability Group database backup
You can restore a replicated database copy in a Database Availability Group (DAG).
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IBM Storage Protect Snapshot backs up mailbox data at the database level, and also restores individual mailbox items from the database backup.
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Restoring mailbox messages interactively with the Mailbox Restore Browser
You can use the Mailbox Restore Browser to interactively restore a mailbox or items from a mailbox on an Exchange Server.
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Restoring mailboxes directly from Exchange Server database files
If the backup database (EDB) file and log files are available on the disk of a supported Microsoft Exchange Server, you can restore an individual mailbox directly from the EDB file.
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Restoring a deleted mailbox or items from a deleted mailbox
You can use IBM Storage Protect Snapshot for Microsoft Exchange Server to restore a mailbox or mailbox items that were deleted from an Exchange Server.
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Restoring mailboxes on remote systems
The process of restoring mailboxes on a remote system with the Mailbox Restore Browser feature differs from restore operations on local systems.