Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Prerequisites and Must know Configure or integrate Online Database backup for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010+ integration

1:54 PM Posted by ChinniLax No Comments

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010+ Database Backup integration/Configuration

During backup, databases can be used actively (online backup). In DAG environments, you can back up active and/or passive database copies.

You can select among the following Microsoft Exchange Server backup types:

Below details are captured as per Data Protector backup tool:

Both standalone environments and Database Availability Group (DAG) environments are supported
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 integration is based on the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology.
Uses backup Parallelism: copies of different databases are backed up in parallel, however, copies of the same database are not, due to a Microsoft Exchange Server VSS writers limitation.
There is no difference between the active and passive copy, except in the currently active log file (at the active copy side), which is not copied to the passive copy side until the file is filled up (that is, reaches 1 MB).
Backup sessions that back up the same database cannot run in parallel.
In DAG Environments you can take the backup by:

By Role: All databases in the DAG are displayed.
By Client: All clients in the DAG are displayed, together with all the databases (active or passive) residing on them. Active databases have the label (active) appended at the end. Passive databases have no label

On Microsoft Exchange Server, install .NET Framework 3.5.1 (in win2012 its not bydefault available)
In a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment, if you intend to use the restore method Restore to a point in time, make sure that you have Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 installed.
Ensure that the following Data Protector components are installed on all Microsoft Exchange Server systems:

o MS Exchange Server 2010+ Integration

o MS Volume Shadow Copy Integration

o The appropriate Data Protector disk array agent

In DAG environments, the DAG virtual system (host) must also be imported to the Data Protector Cell.
Save the user and its password to a Windows Registry on the Microsoft Exchange Server system on which you plan to start the integration agent (e2010_bar.exe). To save the user account, use the Data Protector omniinetpasswd or omnicc command
you need user credentials with specific Exchange Management Roles assigned to create a remote runspace for executing the Exchange Management cmdlet operations remotely.
Configure your user account with the following Exchange privileges:

As a member of the Organization Management role group.
As a member of the Discovery Management role group.
As a member of the Administrators group of the Microsoft Exchange Server system on which the integration is installed.

During restore, each database can be restored using a different restore method.

The following methods are available: