Exchange Server
After you successfully register an Exchange application 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 Exchange Server
Ensure that all prerequisites for your Microsoft Exchange application are met before you start protecting Exchange databases with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus .
Privileges
To help ensure that an Exchange agent can work in your IBM Spectrum Protect Plus environment, you must set up the appropriate privileges for the Exchange user account.
Adding an Exchange application server
When you register Exchange Server, an inventory of Exchange databases is added to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus . When the inventory is available, you can start to back up and restore your Exchange databases and run reports.
Backing up Exchange databases
To protect Exchange databases, you can define a backup job that runs continuously to create incremental backups. You can also run on-demand backup jobs outside of the schedule.
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 Exchange databases
If data in an Exchange database is lost or corrupted, you can restore the data from a backup copy. Use the Restore wizard to set up a restore job schedule or an on-demand restore operation. You can define a job that restores data to the original instance or to an alternative instance, with different types of recovery options and configurations available.
Accessing Exchange database files with instant access mode
You can access the Exchange database files by using the instant access restore type and mount the database files from the vSnap volume to an application server.