Use Tivoli® Storage
Manager for
Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange
Server to protect business-critical mail applications with automated
tasks, utilities, and interfaces.
Getting started
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. A local
shadow volume contains data that is stored on shadow volumes,
which are local to a disk storage subsystem.
Planning
Before you implement your VSS backup and restore strategies,
review the security requirements and other guidelines that are specific
to your environment. Consider how to manage your Tivoli Storage Manager policy, and set available
Data Protection for Exchange Server configuration options and preferences.
Installing, upgrading, and migrating
Before you start the installation process,
review the appropriate prerequisite information, including hardware
and software requirements.
Configuring
You can use configuration wizards to configure Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server, or you can complete the steps manually.
For best results, be guided by the step-by-step instructions in the configuration
wizards.
Protecting data
You can back up and restore your Microsoft Exchange Server data by using Microsoft Management Console
(MMC) or the command-line interface. If required, you can manage your
installations remotely.
Protection of Microsoft Exchange Server data hosted in VMware environments
For Microsoft Exchange
Server workloads that are running in a VMware ESXi virtual guest machine,
you can use Tivoli Storage
Manager software
to take application-consistent backups of virtual machines that are
hosting Microsoft Exchange
Server data. You can also recover the backup from the virtual machine.
Automating
With Data Protection for Exchange Server
automation capability, you can run commands from the command line, create
scripts, schedule tasks, and use Microsoft
Management Console (MMC) to start tasks. The tasks that you can automate are based on the
scripts and schedules that you create.
Troubleshooting
Data Protection for Exchange supports you in protecting Microsoft Exchange databases.
Performance tuning
Many factors can affect the backup and restore performance
of your Exchange Server.
Reference information
Reference information includes the backup and restore
commands that you can issue at the command-line interface
as an alternative to using Microsoft Management
Console (MMC).