Storage Foundation 8.0 Quick Recovery Solutions Guide for Microsoft Exchange - Windows
- Introducing Quick Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
- Planning a Quick Recovery snapshot solution for Exchange
- System requirements
- Methods of implementing Quick Recovery snapshots
- Recommendations and best practices
- Configuring Exchange for Quick Recovery snapshots
- Implementing Exchange snapshot sets with the configuration wizard
- About the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard
- Scheduling Exchange snapshot sets
- Scheduling or creating an individual snapshot set for Exchange
- Maintaining or troubleshooting snapshots
- Recovering Exchange mailbox databases
- Recovering after hardware failure
- About recovery after hardware failure
- Scenario I: Database and transaction logs volumes are missing
- Scenario II: Database volumes missing, transaction logs are available
- Refreshing the snapshot set on the current disks
- Moving the production volumes to different disks and refreshing the snapshot set
- Vxsnap utility command line reference for Exchange
Planning your Quick Recovery solution
Consider the following questions as you plan your Quick Recovery solution:
Should more than one snapshot set be created?
Veritas recommends maintaining a snapshot set that is refreshed after each full backup. A separate snapshot set that is refreshed after each incremental backup would reduce the time it takes to replay the logs in a point-of-failure recovery.
How often and when will each snapshot set be refreshed?
Is sufficient disk space available for multiple snapshot sets as well as the production volumes?
Each snapshot set contains split-mirror snapshots of all the volumes associated with a database and requires the same amount of space as the original volumes.
Do you want to create a snapshot set schedule for use on multiple systems?
You can use the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard to save a template to an XML file for use on other systems.