Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange - User Guide User Manual

Chapter 1. Introducing Acronis® Recovery for MS Exchange This chapter provides general information about a new Acronis product - Acronis Recovery for

With Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange you can restore your crucial mailboxes or single emails from different kinds of backup – not only from brick-lev

production server (operating system and whole information store) on bare metal from bootable CD or from a PXE. • Easy Administration Intuitive wizard

Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Assistant provides an intuitive GUI for easy creation and implementation of a backup strategy, even without DBA exper

• Notifications Configure notification via e-mail and SNMP • Automated recovery staging Every restore scenario can be executed in one step. There is

• x86-64 1.8 Supported Operating Systems for Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Agent For Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange: • Windows 2000 (SP4 Roll

Trial Serial Numbers Acronis allows you to have a trial serial number to be able to use Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange for 14 days without buying th

Chapter 2. Understanding Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange This chapter provides common information about working with Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange

Integration between Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange and Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Agents 2.3 Integration with Acronis True Image Echo Enterp

Configuring Bare Metal Restore To restore all necessary information stores on bare metal or to create a bootable media, you need a previously created

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Chapter 3. Installation of Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange From this chapter you will learn how to install Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange component

Naturally, you are free to use administrator credentials for both purposes. This will work, but make sure it conforms to the security policy set in yo

3.3.2 Installing Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Agent Remotely To install Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Agent remotely on a database server,

3.3.3 Extracting Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Components To install Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange from the command line, you need to extrac

Chapter 4. Getting started with Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange This chapter will help you to start working with Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange, an

4.2 Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Workspace Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange workspace includes the Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Management Con

• Restore E-mails – restore separate e-mails from a previously created archive • Manage Tasks – manage tasks scheduled on a computer • Logs – open

• Options – open a window for editing default backup/restore options, setting text appearance (fonts), configuring notifications etc The View menu c

4.5 Discovering Servers The purpose of discovering servers is to find servers on the network automatically and add them to the list in the Computers p

• Specify the username (as <domain\user>) and password on the server you want to connect to, in the corresponding fields • Select the Save Pa

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Chapter 5. Creating Backup Archives This chapter provides general information about backup types, describes how to backup Microsoft Exchange informati

database from a full database backup to a chosen location. Enough of the transaction log is included in the backup to let you recover the database to

5.1.4 Server Roles As a messaging system that is widely used in both large organizations and small businesses, Microsoft Exchange Server has always be

Thus, an individual database in Microsoft Exchange is only a dependent part of a storage group, and backing it up separately becomes pointless, becaus

5.1.8 Continuous Data Protection Continuous data protection (CDP, but also may be called con inuous backup) technology makes it possible to save data

Backup and restore operations on a tape drive proceed in the same way as with other devices with the following exceptions. 1. You do not have to prov

While creating a backup task, you have to select, which way to back up your data. Note, transaction logs files require considerable disk space, so you

Selecting Storage Groups to Back Up Select the specific storage group you want to back up. The right pane will display its name, size, number and tot

operation. You can change this behavior by specifying additional settings in backup options (see 5.4.7 for detailed information). Please note that u

• 10 Minutes – use when significant changes occur at least every ten minutes (this option is available only while backing up an information store and

Standard Software license. A standard Software License is the general license that is available to LICENSEE. Unless the Virtual Edition S

Table of Backup Strategies The table below describes different backup strategies according to your requirements for storage space and speed. The final

Enter a task name in the Task Name field to identify and organize tasks by operation (edit, delete, etc.). You may provide comments for the archives

credentials will be used during each task execution for connecting to the server and by default for connecting to the Microsoft Exchange. The task wo

Select Exclude the following objects from the backup to enable excluding options and then select the required ones: • “Deleted Items” folder – exclu

Acronis Backup Server This software application, when installed on a networked computer, automatically manages backup archives and retention policies

last day of each month. You can specify Weekly and Monthly parameters to schedule the necessary operation. 5.3.8 Backup Options Select the backup o

• Select commands to be executed before the backup process starts in the Before backup process field. To create a new command or select a new batch fi

Please keep in mind that in the Restore Data wizard, Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange will ask for a password after you select a folder within the ar

This parameter is selected by default, which allows backing up metadata. 3. Overwrite data on the tape Select this parameter if you use tapes as a bac

Chapter 6. Disaster Recovery Plan It is extremely important for all organizations and users to have detailed instructions describing the process for r

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You can check if the settings are correct by clicking the Send test E-Mail message button 5. The final stage of the Disaster Recovery Plan Creation w

Chapter 7. Backup Location Clean-up Sooner or later the backups you create will fill up the assigned storage space. Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange a

Click Next to provide a password, if one is required, for archives in the selected backup location. 7.3 Providing a Password If there are any passwo

7.4.1 GFS Scheme Select this option to enable GFS clean-up scheme. GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) scheme will keep three sets of backups in the selecte

7.6 Backup Location Clean-up Summary The final stage of the backup location clean-up is the summary window, where the list of operations that will be

Chapter 8. Restoring the Backup Data Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange restores storage groups and mailboxes from previously created backup archives.

You can also select specific Acronis backup locations (such as Acronis Backup Server). The following resources may also be selected as backup locatio

• to a specific point in time - Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange allows you to specify a date and time to restore your data from. Note, to be able to

Important! After a successful completion of a database restore process, the database will remain in dismounted. One of the possible ways to avoid thi

8.2.1 Restoration Time Selection In the first step of the Restore Data wizard you decide when to run the restoration process. There are two choices: •

Table of Contents CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCING ACRONIS® RECOVERY FOR MS EXCHANGE ... 10 1.1 WHAT IS ACRONIS RECOVERY FOR MS EXCHANGE? ...

8.2.5 Providing a Password If there are any password-protected backup archives in the location you have selected (see 9.1.3), you will need to enter t

You can restore mailboxes to their original location or choose another mailbox database as a new location. In the latter case the Next button will be

8.3 Restoring Individual E-mails In addition to restoring storage groups and mailboxes, Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange can restore individual e-mai

8.3.3 Setting Additional Search Options Filter Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange allows using a filter to display only the required items in the tree.

8.4.1 Pre/Post Commands You can specify commands or batch files to be automatically executed before and after the restore procedure. Click Edit to op

Changing the restore process priority may have an adverse effect on the performance of other programs running simultaneously. The priority of any proc

Using Dial Tone Recovery Restoring a huge Microsoft Exchange Server database may take several hours before users can start working with it again afte

Chapter 9. Scheduling Tasks 9.1 What is a task? A task is a job you execute for a database that includes the type of operation (backup, restore, etc

Daily - the task will be executed daily at the specified time. You can set the following parameters: Parameter Description Recur every (…) days The ta

End date Select this check box to specify the date when this schedule will be disabled Monthly - the task will be executed monthly at the specified

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One time - the task will be executed once at the specified time and day. You can set the Start time parameter: specify the date and time to start the

Chapter 10. Managing Tasks To manage operations, click Manage Tasks in the Pick a Tool group or select the Tools -> Manage tasks menu item. All

Chapter 11. Notifications Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange can notify you when a task is complete using an SNMP service or via e-mail. By default all

You can check if the settings are correct by clicking the Send Test E-mail Message button. 11.2 SNMP You can choose whether to send event log messag

Chapter 12. Viewing Logs Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange working logs. The logs provide information about scheduled task results, including failure

Chapter 13. Command-line Mode Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange supports the command-line mode. The command-line user interface provides the ability t

Lists an archive location’s URI. The path may be specified in one of the following ways: “C:\path\to\dir\”, “\\computer\share\dir\”, “ftp://host/mybac

Displays parent item information /pit:<date><time> Displays items in a specific point in time. The time format depends on a system locale

Specifies the encryption method of the created archive /password:<password> Displays a password for the required archive location /substitute

/item:<item> This is an optional parameter. It specifies a parent item in the following format: “//StorageGroup_name/Mailbox_name/Folder_name”

8.1.9 Selecting Start Parameters... 58 8.1.10 Echo T

Appendix A. Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange: Best Practices This section provides instructions for best practices when using Acronis Recovery for MS

e. Use default settings for backup f. Add the necessary comments for the task g. Save the created task To recover all data in case of hardware fail

Only one database will be restored to the selected point in time. To recover all data in case of a virus attack For all servers perform the following

A.3 Backing up several databases Scenario The company uses only one Microsoft Exchange instance for running several databases. All databases have diff

Acronis solution The database administrator can use previously created backup tasks and start them manually from the Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange

Appendix B. Installing Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange from command line Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange supports the Microsoft Installer utility (m

Reinstall Options /f[p|o|e|d|c|a|u|m|s|v] <Component.msi | ProductCode> Reinstalls or upgrades the product p – reinstalls only missing files o

w - Logs nonfatal warnings e - Logs all error messages a - Logs startup of actions r - Logs action-specific records u - Logs user requests c - Logs in

Options for Advertising Using a Transform msiexec /j[u][m] component /t Transfo mList rUser Interface Level Options msiexec /q{n|b|r|f|n+|b+|b-} /qn

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