Listen to Del, since he's accredited for authoring brickback.doc, good doc Del.
To make a long story short, NO to your question. You will find no bricklevel option in the TDP for exchange, nor will you find mention of the TDP in bricklevel.doc, which I found interesting since the document is on the TDP CD. There has been more than enough discussion on the subject here, just type exchange in the adsm.org search engine, it's all very good reading. The main consensus is that the reason TSM does not do bricklevel is because of the way the Exchange's API's are written, and any backup that states that it can is careless and unsafe. On the other hand, since there are backup vendors out there who are selling bricklevel solutions, TSM has given it's customers a solution as well. Bricklevel backups and restores using exmerge and pst's. Although this could always be done before, Del has now documented it and gave us a few shortcuts using ini files for those of us that only want to grab those "VIP" mailboxes. Although I don't agree that this a "true" bricklevel solution, I do applaud Del in documenting it and giving us a safe and workable solution along with sample files and quick start instructions. Thanks, Mark B. -----Original Message----- From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backup/restore philosophy for Exchange Neil, Data Protection for Exchange version 5.1.5 contains detailed instructions on doing mailbox level backup and restore using a combination of ExMerge and the ITSM BA client (with subfile backup). It also contains sample versions of script files and sample .INI files for setting this up. Instead of me going into detail in this forum, please obtain the 5.1.5 version and read the BRICKBACK.DOC file that is included in the package. Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Never cut what can be untied. - Commit yourself to constant improvement. ============================================================ > Ok, I have TDP for Exchange v2.2 backing up the databases on > Exchange5.5. We were using Backup-Exec previously, and the NT > adminstrator tells me they backed up and restored mailboxes > individually. I can't find anything about individual mailboxes in the > redbook, does TDP have this option? If not, how would I restore one > user's mailbox without wiping new mail off the server?
