IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server provides online backups and restores of Microsoft Exchange Server components to Tivoli Storage Manager storage.
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server provides a connection between an Exchange Server and a Tivoli Storage Manager server which allows Exchange data to be protected and managed by Tivoli Storage Manager. Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server protects Exchange Server data and improves the availability of Exchange databases.
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange software can complete online backups and restores of Microsoft Exchange Server databases to Tivoli Storage Manager storage or local shadow volumes. You can run backups and restores by using a command-line or graphical user interface (GUI). Refer to your Exchange Server documentation for complete information about the back up and restore of Microsoft Exchange Servers.
Beginning with Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft no longer supports the Microsoft Legacy API (streaming) for backup and restore operations. It supports the use of VSS for the backup and restore.
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange operations use the Tivoli Storage Manager application programming interface (API) to communicate with the Tivoli Storage Manager server, and use the Exchange API to communicate with Exchange Server. In addition to using these APIs, Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange VSS operations use the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client (VSS Requestor) and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to produce an online snapshot (point-in-time consistent copy) of Exchange data that can be stored on local shadow volumes or on Tivoli Storage Manager server storage.
You must install Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange on the same system as the Exchange Server. For the required level of Tivoli Storage Manager server, see Software and operating system requirements. Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange also supports operations in a Database Availability Group (DAG) environment.