I view my DPM exchange backups as disaster recovery, for server failures and what not. And our email archive systems is my easy to get at brick level backup. That said can you not attach some extra storage via iscsi or something like that and mount the recovery there?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] DPM & Exchange That's just it; this isn't a brick-level backup obviously. The Exchange API has the ability to extract a single mailbox (there's a PS command for it) so why doesn't DPM use it? If it's going to restore the entire stinkin' database to get one object, why even bother exposing a UI that leads one to believe a true brick-level restore is being done? Perhaps it has to do with how the job is setup; I'll look at that. ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] DPM & Exchange Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:32:48 +0000 I don't know about *has* to work that way - but to do it any other way would be exceedingly difficult, given the way block-level backups work. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gavin Wilby Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 10:30 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] DPM & Exchange Isnt that how it *has* to work though. I know that's how backup exec operates. Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault Sent: 17 July 2014 14:46 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] DPM & Exchange *grumble* that really sucks. On Jul 16, 2014, at 15:06, "Michael B. Smith" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: To the best of my knowledge, DPM restores the entire DB and then picks out the appropriate piece you request for the restore. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 5:59 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] DPM & Exchange I've not used DPM a lot (2012 installed here) but I have done brick-level restores with it. For some reason in this environment when I select a single mailbox it acts like it's going to restore just the one mailbox but in fact restores the whole database that holds the mailbox. To be clear: In DPM console go to Recovery: Search (open the leaf) Exchange Mailboxes. Use the dialogs at the top to find the one I want, then rclick, select "Recover" and follow the wizard. Recovery type: Recover mailbox to an Exchange server database Exchange server name is correct (selected from the Browse) as is the DB (a RDB created with PS). The mailbox I'm using is my own and on that date was about 12M. The recovery fails with "inadequate disk space" on a 400G drive. Uh.... what? I didn't set up the backup jobs; is there something that has to be configured there? SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, J. Cubbon SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.html ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
