Dell, Thanks for reply. I knew there is a limit on exchange, but I didn't have a time to investigate. If he says that he has 12 customers, I believe him. I opened PMR with tech support, and one of the suggestions was to register 12 nodes for TDP on Exchange server (they have to confirm that).
In this case we would be doing the backup for service provider, he is ASP for exchange, and 12 customers are 12 end-users for exchange. I know that would be easier for us just to provide backup service for asp, so we can register one TDP node and in the case of the disaster we would just restore whole exchange server. But his customers want guarantee from us, that in any case (asp closes the business, run away, don't care any more...) that they can get their data back. That's why we are going through this hassle of trying to make this to work, (still on theoretical level). Can you please give me your opinion about following scenario? We register 12 TDPs on exchange (we will be doing the backup-so admin access is not the issue); for each end-user we backup only their particular database; in case of the disaster, end-user builds exchange server on their site; we install tdp; give them one of the twelve tdp nodes user name and password to connect to tsm server; and at that point (I think) when they launch tdp, they select restore, and all what they can see on tsm server is their exchange database. Thanks in advance. Joe Crnjanski Infinity Network Solutions Inc. Phone: 416-235-0931 x26 Fax: 416-235-0265 Web: www.infinitynetwork.com -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Exchange backup Joe, Are you sure about the details here? Microsoft Exchange Server only supports four (4) storage groups for any one server. Are you referring to databases? (There can be five (5) databases for each storage group.) In addition, any end-user "customer" that will be doing restores has Admin access to the Exchange Server and therefore has access to ALL of the data on the server. If the service provider will provide the backup service, they will also most likely want to provide the "restore" piece as well. I wouldn't want to put the restore control into the hands of one of the end-user "customers" that I am providing this service to. You could have multiple customers per Exchange Server, but you would need to maintain control over backups and restores in order to maintain confidentiality of the data for each customer. Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 04/13/2005 03:59:49 PM: > Hi All, > > I have potential customer who is ASP for Exchange. > > On server that he is considering for backup, he is running exchange > server and there are 12 storage groups (12 customers). He is considering > that server for backup. > My question is, if we backup this server, and we need to restore it, is > it possible for his customers to restore just corresponding data. They > would like to build exchange server on each customer's location, than we > install TDP for each customer, and in case of disaster they restore from > our TSM server. > I just don't know how to prevent their customer to access all 12 storage > groups. > > > I'm afraid even to ask how many licenses we would need in this case. It > is one exchange server, but 12 different customers. I would say one, but > opinions of this group are always welcome. > > > Joe Crnjanski > Infinity Network Solutions Inc. > Phone: 416-235-0931 x26 > Fax: 416-235-0265 > Web: www.infinitynetwork.com >
