Microsoft Exchange Server
After you successfully register a Microsoft Exchange Server, you can start to protect Microsoft Exchange data
with IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus . Define a service level agreement
(SLA) policy to create backup jobs with specific schedules, retention policies, and
scripts.
Prerequisites for Microsoft Exchange Server
Ensure that all prerequisites for your Microsoft Exchange application are met before you start protecting Microsoft Exchange databases with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus .
Privileges
To help ensure that a Microsoft Exchange agent can work in your IBM Spectrum Protect Plus environment, you must set up appropriate privileges.
Adding a Microsoft Exchange application server
When you register Microsoft Exchange Server, an inventory of Exchange databases is added to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus . When the inventory is available, you can start to backup and restore your Exchange databases and run reports.
Defining a Service Level Agreement backup job
When your Microsoft Exchange databases are listed for each of your Exchange instances, select and apply a service level agreement (SLA) policy to start protecting your data.
Incremental forever backup strategy
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides a backup strategy called incremental forever . Rather than scheduling periodic full backup jobs, this backup solution requires only one initial full backup. Afterward, an ongoing sequence of incremental backup jobs occurs.
Restoring Microsoft Exchange databases
If data in a Microsoft Exchange database is lost or corrupted, you can restore the data from a backup copy. You can define a job that restores data from the latest database backup or select an earlier backup copy. Choose to restore data to the original instance or to an alternative instance.