Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server updates V8.1.0

What's new

Mount VSS snapshot backups as read/write

You can mount local VSS snapshot backups as writable VSS snapshots. Therefore, you can restore your Exchange mailboxes without having to do a full recovery database (RDB) restore, making your mailbox restore operations much faster.

The following mount options are available for your writable mount:

• Mount read/write (modifies backup, applies to COPY backups only)

  For VSS providers that support transportable shadow copies, you can mount a COPY type backup as read/write. After mounting, your COPY backup is marked as modified and while you can mount it again in the future, this backup can no longer be used for full database restores. It can be used for mailbox restore operations only. All databases on the snapshot volume that are mounted as read/write are marked as modified.

• Mount read/write (without modifying backup)

  You can mount a read/write copy of your backup where you can modify the copy without invalidating the backup. With this option, you can mount writable VSS snapshots of FULL or COPY backups. This option is only available for SAN Volume Controller (SVC) devices and requires IBM® System Storage® Support for Microsoft Virtual Disk and Volume Shadow Copy Services version 4.12 or later.

For more information, see Mounting Exchange Server backups.