With IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server, you can back up and restore Microsoft Exchange Server databases to Tivoli Storage Manager storage or local shadow volumes. The term local shadow volumes describes data that is stored on shadow volumes, which are localized to a disk storage subsystem.
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 backs up and restores Microsoft Exchange Server databases to Tivoli Storage Manager storage or local shadow volumes. You can use a command-line interface or graphical user interface (GUI) to back up and restore Exchange Server databases. For more information about backing up and restoring Exchange Server databases, see your Exchange Server documentation.
Beginning with Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft no longer supports the Microsoft Legacy application programming interface (API) for streaming backup and restore operations. Microsoft supports the use of Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology for backup and restore operations.
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange uses the Tivoli Storage Manager API to communicate with the Tivoli Storage Manager server, and the Exchange API to communicate with Exchange Server. In addition to these APIs, Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange VSS operations require the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client (VSS Requestor) and Microsoft VSS to produce an online snapshot (point-in-time consistent copy) of Exchange data.
You must install Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange on the same system as the Exchange Server. Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange also supports backup and restore operations in a Database Availability Group (DAG) environment.