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
- 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 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) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
- 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 Exchange 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 Exchange Server data with VMware backups
- Notes for configuration of VMware policies that protect Exchange Server
- About configuring a VMware backup that protects Exchange Server
- About configuring a VMware backup that protects Exchange Server, using Replication Director to manage snapshot replication
- Configuring Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) with a VMware backup that protects Exchange, using Replication Director to manage snapshot replication
- Configuring a VMware policy to back up Exchange Server using Replication Director to manage snapshot replication
- Configuring NetBackup with access to the CIFS share on the NetApp disk array
- About restoring Exchange data from a VMware backup
- Enabling protection of passive copies of the Exchange database with VMware backups
- Recovering an Exchange database to a repaired or an alternate Exchange server
- 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 with Exchange 2010 and 2013
- Troubleshooting DAG backups and restores
- Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of Exchange Server
- Appendix A. NetBackup Legacy Network Service (Exchange 2010)
About selecting a destination client for an Exchange restore operation
When you perform a restore of an Exchange backup, you can choose a different destination client to which you want to restore a backup. (This type of operation is called redirecting a restore to a different client.) Most of the Exchange objects that are backed up can be redirected to a different client. The Microsoft Exchange Information Store databases can be restored to a different Exchange server.
The following requirements must be met before you redirect the restore of databases:
You must have NetBackup server privileges or be logged into a server with the NetBackup Administration Console or the NetBackup Remote Administration Console.
The databases must exist on the target server.
If you initiate a redirected restore from a NetBackup client, the destination client must have permission to restore from the source client. See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I for the configuration that is needed for a redirected restore.
The following situations require that the clients have the same version of Windows, as follows:
When you redirect a restore to a different client
When you select a destination client other than the source client when you browse the backup image
To provide the name of the destination client, select . If the client you want does not appear in the destination client list, you can add the client to the list.
If you want to perform a restore in a non-cluster environment to the original client that performed the backup, you do not need to change the destination client. In a cluster environment, you need to ensure that the destination client is virtual server name. It may not be possible to change the destination client value from a NetBackup client-only installation in a cluster. In that case, use the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface on a NetBackup server to change the destination client value to the virtual server name.
Select the destination client as described in Table: Destination client for an Exchange Server restore operation.
Table: Destination client for an Exchange Server restore operation
To restore to... | For the destination client, select... |
|---|---|
another database in the same DAG | the same destination client as the source client. NetBackup redirects the restore to the server that hosts the active copy of the database. |
another database in a different DAG | the DAG name where the target database exists. NetBackup redirects the restore to the server that hosts the active copy of the database. |
an RDB in a DAG | the DAG name |
an RDB on a standalone server | the name of the standalone server |
the original client that performed the backup | you do not need to change the client |
a different client | the client you want from the list. If necessary, first add the client name to the list. |
a cluster environment | the virtual client name |
a DAG node | the name of that node |
a specific mailbox server | the name of that server |