On Tuesday 24 February 2009 15:52:41 Adam Thornton wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 12:46:00 James Harper wrote:
> >> My curiosity was about if the Microsoft provided exchange backup dll
> >> could backup a 64 bit version of exchange from a 32 bit app. If it
> >> uses
> >> a non-direct-call interface to Exchange then it may just work.
> >
> > Yes, it may indeed work.  Most 32 bit applications work with the 64
> > bit OS,
> > but 64 bit VSS does not permit 32 bit applications to interface to it.
>
> I presume that just installing the current beta and specifying the
> Exchange plugin for my datastore is all I need to do to get it to
> attempt a backup, and then a restore to the Restore Storage Group (or
> whatever it's actually called) is all I need to do to see if it
> actually worked?

More or less -- the current beta is a 32 bit version so it will not use VSS on 
64 bit Windows machines.  The use of the Exchange plugin is documented in the 
New Features section of the manual.


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