Section 15 - Backup / Restore Microsoft Exchange Server

This section describes in details how to backup and restore Microsoft Exchange Server with OBM.

15.4.1 Requirements and recommendations

Please ensure that the following requirements are met by the MS Exchange server:




• OBM version 5.5.8.0 or above is installed on the Exchange server.



For Exchange server 2010 with database availability group (DAG) backup option, please refer to the next section for details




• Databases of the Exchange server are spooled to a temporary directory before being uploaded to the offsite backup server.



It is recommended that the temporary directory have disk space of at least 120% of the total database size (e.g. total size of all .edb files found within the MS Exchange Server installation folder).



Since 6.11.0.0, the Exchange server 2010 backup will no longer required to spool the database to the hard disk, however the VSS Exchange backup still requires certain amount of disk space to operate. Microsoft suggested that some shadow copy mechanism may required to reserve 100% of the original database.

Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exchange/aa579091%28v=exchg.140%29.aspx




• It is recommended that the temporary directory be configured on a local drive.
• For Exchange server with Active Directory installed, a System State backup must be performed regularly with the MS Exchange server backup.



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