I hope we are not making Del's job a living hell ;-)
Most of us are as tired of these claims as Del is and I must say that I have
no ill will towards Tivoli and their approach to the backup/restore of
Exchange. In all fairness I am always suspicious of other vendors claims
that they have mailbox level restore capabilities.
I just hope that Microsoft is using a level playing field.
Anyway,
Thanks Del!
CR
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Cris Robinson
Storage Engineering
Information Technology Services & Support
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
603.245.4837
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Del Hoobler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 11:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Exchange 2000 TDP-follow-up
>
> Cris, et. al,
>
> Microsoft DOES NOT have mailbox/item level
> backup and restore APIs for any version of Exchange
> including the new Exchange 2000 coming out this month.
> They repeated this to many customers at the latest
> Microsoft Backup BAM in Redmond last week.
>
> There are vendors who have coded solutions using
> APIs (like MAPI) that are not intended for backup
> and restore. These solutions tend to take large
> amounts of time for backups and full restores...
> (Try restoring a 50Gig IS or storage group from
> an item level backup and restore.)
>
> Microsoft themselves claims that they have tried to
> come up with a way to provide some type of
> item level restore support via the backup and restore APIs
> but have not succeeded because of the architecture of
> the JET database (the database that is the heart of Exchange.)
> Microsoft contends that customers should take advantage of
> deleted item level recovery and the new deleted mailbox level
> recovery of Exchange 2000 to solve these problems.
>
> Not that I need to say this...but before making any decisions...
> ...customers should install and evaluate the complete solution
> before committing to any particular product.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Del
>
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>
> Del Hoobler
> IBM Corporation
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>
> Cris Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on
> 10/04/2000 10:25:54 AM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc:
> Subject: Re: Exchange 2000 TDP-follow-up
>
>
>
> I couldn't resist commenting on this subject, again! So here it goes....
>
> A few months ago we were getting abit annoyed with TSM and called in some
> vendors to looks at their backup products. One was Veritas, who we all
> know,
> another was CommVault which was spun off from Lucent.
>
> CommVault apparently is in bed with Microsoft, and living in sin I
> suppose.
> Their strategy is windows 2000 centric and they make some bold claims
> about
> restoring individual Exchange mailboxes.
>
> I strongly suspect that they have some inside advantage with Microsoft and
> Tivoli is being kept at bay. Check out their claims at:
> http://galaxy.commvault.com/products_sub.asp?id=63
>
> Now, with that said I must say that I did not like the CommVault database
> schema and their DR solution and Tivoli wised up and fixed the TSM issues
> we
> had.
>
> I strongly suspect that Microsoft has more than a "partnership" with
> CommVault. But I hate Microsoft anyway so judge for yourself.
>
> Good Luck -
> CR
> __________________________________________________
> Cris Robinson
> Storage Engineering
> Information Technology Services & Support
> Liberty Mutual Insurance
> Portsmouth, New Hampshire
> 603.245.4837
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