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October 13th, 2014 09:00
Exchange backups
On my previous backup software I backed up each datastore in the exchange DAG as a separate job.
this allowed me to back the up faster .... but I found it really helped with I needed to do a legal hold on a mailbox.
I just had to keep one or 2 backups not ALL OF THEM.
now when exchange backup was setup on Avamar I only have 2 jobs (because I have 2 servers in the DAG), one for each server.
So now when I get a legal hold request.... I have to Keep either 1/2 or ALL of a backup. This is a lot of space being taken up for stuff I don't really need.
So... can you backup each datastore as a separate job/image?
tobiasolin
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October 14th, 2014 08:00
OK, i follow. You can create a job for each datastore though, you have to have a dataset for each, including the datastore you want to backup in source data.
tobiasolin
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October 13th, 2014 23:00
You should backup the DAG not each server by itself.
J_H_
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October 14th, 2014 06:00
We are doing Dag backups,
but the DAG is split between two active servers and two passive servers
we backup the passive copy. and EMC is the one that helped setup the backup
DAG everything on server1
DAG everything on server2
but when I have to keep a backup of someone's mailbox I have to keep a whole backup that has that datastore in it.
that's a lot of space when just the datastore would be smaller.
and in my previous software - BACKING UP THE DAG. I could create one job for each datastore. Then if I had to keep anything it was just the datastore and not the whole DAG.