Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange helps protect and manage Exchange Server environments by facilitating the backup, restore, and recovery of Exchange Server data.
For Exchange 2013 users, you can back up and restore public folder mailboxes located on mailbox databases in standalone and TSM configurations. Item-level restore for public folders is not supported.
For Exchange 2010, public folder databases can be backed up and restored. For both Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013, item-level restore for public folders is not supported.
| Feature | Referred to as: | More information: |
|---|---|---|
| Perform individual mailbox recovery and item-level recovery from Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange backups | Mailbox restore | Restoring individual mailbox and mailbox item-level data |
| Back up Exchange Server databases by using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) | VSS backup | VSS backup |
| Back up Exchange Server Database Availability Group databases to a common node to manage all DAG members by using a single policy | Back up to DAG node | Managing Exchange Database Availability Group members by using a single policy |
| Perform a backup to the Tivoli® Storage Manager server by using an alternate system instead of a production system | Offloaded backup | Offloaded VSS backups |
| Restore backups that are on Tivoli Storage Manager server storage to their original location | VSS restore | VSS restore |
| Restore backups that are on local shadow volumes by using file-level copy mechanisms | VSS Fast Restore | VSS fast restore |
| Restore backups that are on local shadow volumes by using hardware-assisted volume-level copy mechanisms | VSS Instant Restore | VSS instant restore |
| Restore a backup to a recovery database, alternate database, or relocated database | Restore into | Restoring VSS backups into alternate locations |
| Query the managed capacity for backups that are on local shadow volumes | query managedcapacity command | Query Managedcapacity command |
| Delete a backup of an Exchange server database | delete backup command | Delete backup command |
| Manage policy for backups that are on local shadow volumes | policy commands | Query policy command |
| Integrate with Tivoli Storage FlashCopy® Manager | Advanced VSS support | Transitioning Exchange Server backups from Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager to Tivoli Storage Manager |
| Tivoli Storage Manager policy-based management of backups | Server policy | How Tivoli Storage Manager server policy affects Data Protection for Exchange |
| Use the restorefiles command to restore backups to flat files without involving the Exchange Server. | restorefiles command | Restorefiles command |
The term local shadow volumes is used throughout this document to describe data that is stored on shadow volumes that are localized to a disk storage subsystem.