Hello Chris,

First of all I was wondering how come backup is working fine as that configuration is wrong, let me explain you why:

If you set node1 to backup active, means that node2, which has set passive, will try to backup the same DB's as node1, so in that case backup will fail.

I suppose you don't have one of the nodes to be running the backup (Scheduled), so please clarify.

Now, in answer to your question I would suggest you to backup only one of the DAG nodes and set NSR_EXCH2010_BACKUP=all, and run the backup only against that node, so in that case, no matter what is the status of the DB's, that node will be backing up all the DB's, including Public Folders.

In fact, my suggestion would be to backup the node hosting the PF's.

Thank you.

Carlos.

I did fail to indicate there was a group that contained the DAG and Client 1 and the other group the only had Client 2.  Not being an Exchange admin I just fulfiled the requirement of having backups complete of both clients.  I couldn't derive a what a proper configuration would be from the NMM docs so I just guessed.

This morning I was able to get some clarification from the Exchange admin  that only backing up one of the clients would be acceptible.

Your solution above does clear some conceptual issues for me and will try that config tonight.

Thank you for the push in the right direction.

Hi Chris,

So is your problem fixed now? Are you able to successfully backup your Exchange 2010 Environment?

Thank you.

Carlos.