PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 Microsoft Application Agent Exchange Server User Guide

Supporting existing Microsoft application agent backups with PowerProtect Data Manager

Learn how to support the existing Microsoft application agent backups.

1. Run the backup discovery tool, AgentBackupDiscovery.exe, to enable management of existing Microsoft application agent backups with PowerProtect Data Manager.

   Using the backup discovery tool for PowerProtect Data Manager management of existing backups provides information.

   NOTE This step enables the discovery of old backup copies that the Microsoft application agent created during self-service backups with stand-alone deployments.
2. Register and approve the Microsoft application agent in PowerProtect Data Manager.

   Manage the Microsoft application agent for Exchange provides information.

   After a few minutes of approving the Exchange host, older backup copies are discovered. Depending on the number of backups, the discovery and subsequent visibility of the backups in PowerProtect Data Manager can take some time. The retention time for the discovered backup is the same as the expiration time when the backup was performed.

3. Discover the Exchange application host.
   Discover an Exchange application host provides information.
4. Create a protection policy to protect the Exchange host. For onboarding assets, only a subset of databases can be onboarded. It is not mandatory for all the databases on the host to be onboarded.

   Add a protection policy for Exchange database protection provides information.

   The first backup after onboarding must be a full backup:

   • The first centralized backup is automatically promoted to a full backup.
   • The first self-service backup is automatically performed as a full backup.

   NOTE You cannot perform a backup to a secondary DD system device. You can restore only from a secondary DD system device.
5. Perform a self-service backup of the Microsoft Exchange databases. Onboarded assets can be part of either a centralized or self-service protection policy.
   Performing self-service backups of Microsoft Exchange databases provides information.