Exchange 2010 backup with NMM 2.3

In my case, when setting up Exchange NMM backup, I had to restart Exchange server in order to delete snapshots. Deleting snapshots using "diskshadow" sometimes does not work (don't know why). Also, ensure you have at least Exchange 2010 rollup 4.

Hi,

Make sure you have created and selected snapshot policy on the group properties.

1)Create a Snaphot value with name serverless under snapshot policies with following values

Number of Snapshots=1

Retain Snapshot=0

Snapshot Expiration Policy= Day

Backup Snapshot= ALL

2)Enable the Snapshot policy on the group properties and selected the Serverless backup policy

Please refer the KB article link for more details.

http://solutions.emc.com/EMCSolutionView.asp?id=esg126922&usertype=C

Thanks

Panwar

HI

Waiting to move the log files to another disk , exchange admin will ba back only next week , so once it  is done i will update the results

Hi,

I have two Exchange servers in DAG and i am trying to configure a Backup using NMM 2.3 of the server with passive database (standalone backup). I can see that the backup is happening but in the end it fails with the following errors:

MSExchangeRepl

2038

Microsoft Exchange VSS Writer backup failed. No log files were truncated. Instance 80b7e05e-4aea-4d22-9003-2a9e59087429. Database f0cb5ea0-f5f7-42a8-8ce9-b8fa246e9598.

MSExchangeRepl

2034

The Microsoft Exchange Replication service VSS Writer (Instance 80b7e05e-4aea-4d22-9003-2a9e59087429) failed with error FFFFFFFC when processing the backup completion event.

These errors seem to be related to MS Exchange or Windows.

Please help me out with the same.

Regards,

Pratik.

Hey Pratik,

This sounds to me as a known Microsoft issue. There was a fix for Exchange 2007:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982118

But event 2034 from VSS is definitely a Microsoft issue:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/support/ee/transform.aspx?ProdName=Exchange&ProdVer=8.0&EvtID=2034&EvtSrc=MSExchangeRepl&LCID=1033

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/support/ee/transform.aspx?ProdName=Exchange&ProdVer=8.0&EvtID=2034&EvtSrc=MSExchangeSA&LCID=1033

However I would recommend you to install and run NMM Config Checker, and this will let you know if all required OS and VSS related patches are in place.

Thank you.

Carlos.

Zkk,

Any luck after moving the logs?

Thank you.

Carlos.

HI

Not yet moved the logs , waiting for exchange admin to come from leave , hope i can give you an update by

end of this week

What about if you try only the saveset for the MDB and skip the PF for testing purposes? or does the MB DB also have the logs in the same path as the DB?

Saveset should be:

APPLICATIONS:\Microsoft Exchange 2010\Mailbox Database 1114983022

Thank you.

Carlos.

Hi Pratik,

As you can see in the output you don't have any PF created, and that is a requirement:

Besides, if you intend to perform restores you will need to address these ones:

Anyway, could you please sender nmm.raw and paste here the output?

Thank you.

Carlos.

Hi Pratik,

I forgot to mention this other failure:

Please check the status of the Network Adapters.

Thank you.

Carlos.

Thanks carlos

i am out of work for a week , attending a training , i will update you once i am back

Hi Zkk and Pratik,

Any update on the Exchange backups?

Thank you.

Carlos.

Hi Carlos,

The NMM Config checker was run again on the exchange hosts with the Administrator credentials. Previously, since it was tested with local admin credentials, we got the USER_SEND_AS_RECEIVE_AS_CHECK error. But that has been solved this time. Also the public folder is present on the other server which is being used as exchange host (active) now. Only the LIBRARY_VERSION issue is yet to be resolved. Just wanted to ask you whether it is mandatory to update The Library Messaging API and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 to 6.5 .

Please let me know about the same.

Regards,

Pratik.

Hi Pratik,

Send as-Receive as permissions are only required for restore operations, not really to perform backups.

Are you still getting any error message during the backup? If so, what is that error message? Please render nmm.raw and paste in here the output.

Thank you.

Carlos.