Hello, just my humble experience here... As posted, Veritas has been doing this for years and we've had it in place for years. As we are new Tivoli users, we did not purchase the Tivoli Exchange license (pretty expensive!), but continue to use Veritas (now 9.1), on our new Exchange 2003 server. We let Tivoli backup the bi-weekly Full Veritas mailbox file, then backup daily Veritas mailbox incrementals.
Fun thing is we cannot backup the Exchange 2003 store now with our older Veritas Exchange license... we'd have to upgrade the Veritas license for 2003, still cheaper than Tivoli. We would need this to flush the Exchange logs after a Full backup. Instead, I use the MS Backup to do the store backup weekly, this output again backed up by Tivoli. Why we do all this is strange anyway, I guess for mostly legal reasons. If you've ever had to restore an e-mail from a year or two ago (we had to for legal reasons), it's like shooting in the dark... or finding a needle in a haystack. We are not a big company and MIS resources are tight (as many of you probably are). Each of us handles 24 things. Spare servers sitting around are next to impossible, unless you are a financial, pharmaceutical, Walmart, IBM, MicroSoft .. any company that makes BIG money.. you live in your own worlds believe me. Anyway, since e-mail backups are done at points of time, an e-mail might arrive then disappear (deleted or moved automatically or by the user to a personal folder) before it's backed up. Sync that with personal folder backups etc. and it's real fun. Try to restore an Exchange 5.5 store to a 2003 server, or to another testbed server.. you have to use the same server name for the store etc. Then find the missing e-mails by restoring every backup and/or backup logs from 2 years ago... no wonder the 3 day thing. Charlie Hurtubise [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: veritas backup exec client and TSM server Hi all, one of my users pointed out to me that veritas backup exec 9.1 supports a few features that could make this a usefull product for them: 1- restore of single mailboxes or messages in exchange 2- TSM server as storage 3- better centralisation of backup logging for non-TSM administrators This does indeed seem to be the case. So now my question is, does anybody have experience with such a set-up? What are the up and down-sides of an environment with veritas clients on a TSM client? In particular the first and the third feature do appeal to them, since restoring a single mail message now takes them about 3 days! The other question one might ask, is IBM ever going to wake up and realise that these features are a show-stopper for implementations of their product in an exchange environment?�It now seems we have a viable alternative to spent our money (hint!!!). -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams
