Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for Exchange
- Installing NetBackup for Exchange
- Planning the installation of NetBackup for Exchange
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- NetBackup server requirements for NetBackup for Exchange
- NetBackup client requirements for NetBackup for Exchange
- Exchange server software requirements for NetBackup for Exchange
- Snapshot Client configuration and licensing requirements for Exchange snapshot backups
- Installing the Veritas VSS provider for vSphere
- About the license for NetBackup for Exchange
- Configuring Exchange client host properties
- Configuring Exchange client host properties
- Exchange properties
- About backing up all or only uncommitted Exchange transaction log files with snapshot backups
- Configuring the Exchange granular proxy host
- About truncating Exchange transaction logs with Instant Recovery backups
- Truncating Exchange transaction logs by performing a backup to a storage unit
- About consistency checks options for an Exchange backup
- About the Exchange credentials in the client host properties
- Configuring the account for NetBackup for Exchange operations
- About configuring the account for NetBackup Exchange operations
- About NetBackup and Microsoft Exchange Web Services
- Creating a privileged NetBackup user account for EWS access
- Creating a minimal NetBackup account for Exchange operations
- About configuring the account for NetBackup Exchange operations with the right to Replace a process level token
- Configuring the Exchange hosts
- Configuring Exchange Granular Recovery
- About Exchange backups and Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring an Exchange backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) (non-VMware backups)
- About installing and configuring Network File System (NFS) for Exchange Granular Recovery
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS)
- Disabling the Server for NFS
- Disabling the Client for NFS on the media server
- Configuring a UNIX media server and Windows clients for backups and restores that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring a different network port for NBFSD
- Disk storage units supported with Exchange Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Disabling the cataloging for duplications of Exchange backups that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Cataloging an Exchange backup or VMware backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service
- Configuring Exchange backup policies (non-VMware)
- About Exchange automatic, user-directed, and manual backups
- About configuring a backup policy for Exchange Server
- Policy recommendations for Exchange Server
- About policy attributes
- Adding schedules to a NetBackup for Exchange policy
- Adding clients to a NetBackup for Exchange policy
- Using physical node names in the clients list
- Adding backup selections to an Exchange policy
- Adding entries to the backup selections list by browsing
- Manually adding entries to the backup selections list
- Performing Exchange backups with multiple data streams
- Using multiple datastreams with Exchange Database Availability Groups (DAG)s
- Using wildcards in an Exchange backup selections list
- About excluding Exchange items from backups
- Configuring exclude lists for Exchange clients
- About Exchange backups and transaction logs
- About configuring snapshot backups of Exchange Server
- About configuring Instant Recovery backups of Exchange Server
- About Exchange Instant Recovery methods
- Policy recommendations for Exchange Instant Recovery
- About Storage Foundations for Windows (SFW) and Exchange Instant Recovery
- About configuration requirements for the Exchange Server when you use Instant Recovery
- About Exchange Instant Recovery with the Microsoft VSS Provider
- Configuring an Exchange snapshot policy with Instant Recovery
- Performing a manual backup
- Performing backups of Exchange Server, mailboxes, and public folders
- Performing restores of Exchange Server, mailboxes, and public folders
- About Exchange server-directed and redirected restores
- About selecting a destination client for an Exchange restore operation
- About restoring Exchange database data
- About existing Exchange Server transaction logs
- About restoring Exchange snapshot backups
- Options for Exchange snapshot restores
- Performing a snapshot restore of a Database Availability Group (DAG)
- Performing a snapshot restore of an Exchange standalone server
- Redirecting a Database Availability Group (DAG) snapshot backup to another database or to the recovery database (RDB)
- Redirecting an Exchange standalone server snapshot backup to another database or to the recovery database (RDB)
- Manually mounting an Exchange database after a restore
- About restoring individual Exchange mailbox and public folder items
- About special characters in mailbox folders and message subjects
- Prerequisites and operational notes for restoring Exchange individual mailboxes, mailbox folders, public folders, or messages
- Options for restores of Exchange Server mailbox objects or public folder objects
- Restoring Exchange mailbox or public folder objects
- About redirecting a restore of Exchange mailbox or public folder objects to a different path
- About using the command line to browse or restore Exchange granular backup images
- Protecting Exchange Server data with VMware backups
- About protecting an application database with VMware backups
- About configuring a VMware backup that protects Exchange Server
- About configuring a VMware backup that protects Exchange Server, using Replication Director
- About restoring Exchange data from a VMware backup
- Enabling protection of passive copies of the Exchange database with VMware backups
- Troubleshooting backups and restores of Exchange Server
- About NetBackup for Exchange debug logging
- Viewing Event Viewer logs on an off-host Exchange server
- About NetBackup status reports
- Troubleshooting Exchange restore operations
- Exchange Server transaction log truncation errors
- Dynamic enforcement of path length limit for Exchange backups and restores
- Troubleshooting Exchange snapshot operations
- Troubleshooting Exchange jobs that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Increased memory usage
- Troubleshooting DAG backups and restores
- Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of Exchange Server
Exchange granular clients and VMware backups
Exchange granular clients are those clients that perform backup or restore operations with Granular Recovery Technology (GRT). This distinction is important because not all Exchange clients perform GRT operations with VMware browse and restore operations. Therefore, not all clients have the same configuration requirements.
With a VMware backup that protects Exchange, granular clients include following:
Clients that browse for backups
Mailbox servers that are used to browse into mailboxes to select items for restore
An Exchange granular proxy host
Each Exchange granular client requires configuration of the following:
Configure all the mailbox servers.
Every mailbox server that is used for granular browse or restore must have the NFS client installed. It also must have an unassigned drive letter for NetBackup to use to mount an NFS view of the backup image.
Note that NFS is not needed for VMware backups.
An account for NetBackup Exchange operations (unique mailbox for NetBackup)
This account must have the right to "Replace a process level token."
In the Exchange client host properties, to the add the credentials of the account for NetBackup Exchange operations.
Configure the credentials on all granular clients. Note that you do not need to configure the Exchange credentials on the mailbox servers that perform only backup or browse operations. Alternatively, add "Exchange Servers" to the "View-Only Organization Management" role group. Then configure Exchange credentials only on the destination client that performs restores.
Mappings for distributed application restores.
For virtual environments you need to create a map of the virtual names and physical names of the systems in the Exchange configuration. This mapping applies to any NetBackup client that mounts the backup image or initiates a restore operation. Configure these mappings in the host property on the master server.
If you use a proxy server and it is not a media or a master server, you also need to add the proxy server to this list.
See Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed applications, clusters, or virtual machines .
Auto-discovered mappings for the hosts in your environment.
Approve each valid that NetBackup discovers in your environment. Perform this configuration in the properties on the master server.
See Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management.
The client that performs the restore must have the same version of Windows as the client from which the backup is made.
If you use an Exchange granular proxy server, the mailbox servers and the proxy host must also meet the following additional requirements:
Have the same NetBackup version
Use the same NetBackup master server
Both use a Windows version that is supported for that version of Exchange
See the Application/Database Agent Compatibility List for more information.
Note the following if you use Replication Director to manage your VMware snapshots and snapshot replication:
Replication Director lets you browse and restore from a snapshot copy of the image. When NetBackup uses a snapshot rather than a disk storage unit for GRT operations, it does not use NFS or a new drive letter.
Configure the NetBackup Client Service with a logon account that has access to the CIFS shares that are created on the NetApp disk array.