Using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to Back Up Microsoft Exchange with VSS

Using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to Back Up Microsoft Exchange with VSS

by Charlotte Brooks, Paulo Neto, Sean Ramnarayan
Released November 2006
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

Typical Microsoft Exchange environments are growing larger and increasingly are managing data and applications critical to a business. This makes backup and restore a greater challenge. Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a way to use the instant copy capabilities of disk storage hardware for faster backup, thereby reducing the time taken for backup as well as reducing the impact which the backup operation has on the Exchange server.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services, together with Data Protection for Mail, leverages VSS functionality in an integrated, easy-to-use way, to back up and restore Exchange databases. It supports a wide variety of disk hardware and uses the same interface as traditional Data Protection for Mail operations.
This IBM Redbooks publication will help you plan, configure and run IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services in your Microsoft Exchange environments.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  3. Chapter 1: Introduction
    1. Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services - Data Protection for Exchange overview
      1. Data Protection for Exchange
      2. New features of Data Protection for Exchange
    2. Snapshots
      1. Snapshot overview
      2. Copy-on-write
      3. Redirect-on-write
      4. Split mirror
      5. Copy-on-write with background copy
      6. IBM incremental FlashCopy
    3. Volume Shadow Copy Service
      1. Methods for creating shadow copies
      2. The VSS model
      3. The VSS architecture
      4. How shadow copies are created
      5. Shadow copy types
    4. The Microsoft Virtual Disk Service
    5. VSS with Tivoli Storage Manager
      1. Integration of Data Protection for Exchange with VSS
      2. Types of Exchange backup
      3. Backup methods
      4. Restore methods
      5. Shadow copy types with Data Protection for Exchange
  4. Chapter 2: Pre-installation and planning
    1. Environment requirements
      1. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services
      2. Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services components
      3. Storage layout considerations for Microsoft Exchange
    2. Overview of VSS and legacy backups
      1. Legacy backup overview
      2. VSS backup overview
    3. Legacy and VSS backup and restore methods
      1. Legacy backups
      2. VSS backups
      3. Restore processing
      4. Using VSS and legacy backups together
    4. Backup strategy
    5. How Tivoli Storage Manager manages VSS backups
      1. Management of VSS snapshot backups in Tivoli Storage Manager
      2. Legacy backup management
      3. Version management of VSS snapshot backups
      4. General policy considerations
    6. Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) support
    7. Tivoli Storage Manager client configuration for VSS
      1. Data Protection for Exchange client node
      2. Local DSMAgent client node
      3. Remote DSMAgent client node
  5. Chapter 3: Installation
    1. Installation overview
      1. Summary of the installation and configuration steps
    2. Detailed installation procedure
      1. Verify name resolution
      2. Create storage pools and policy settings
      3. Register Exchange and DSMAgents nodenames
      4. Install the backup-archive client code
      5. Install Data Protection for Exchange
      6. Install IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services
      7. Configure the option and config files (1/2)
      8. Configure the option and config files (2/2)
      9. Configure the CAD and remote agent services (1/2)
      10. Configure the CAD and remote agent services (2/2)
      11. Create a cluster service to manage the CAD service
      12. Configure the proxy node definitions
      13. Install the Exchange management tools on the offloaded server
      14. Add the Exchange Server binary directory to the PATH variable
      15. Installing the hardware provider (1/2)
      16. Installing the hardware provider (2/2)
      17. Define storage space to hold VSS backups
      18. Using vssadmin and vshadow commands (1/3)
      19. Using vssadmin and vshadow commands (2/3)
      20. Using vssadmin and vshadow commands (3/3)
  6. Chapter 4: Backup and restore
    1. GUI overview
      1. Menu bar
      2. Toolbar
      3. Launching the GUI
      4. Backup and restore window
    2. The command line interface
    3. Our test environment
    4. Legacy Exchange backup
      1. GUI legacy full backup
      2. CLI legacy full backup
      3. GUI legacy copy backup
      4. CLI legacy copy backup
    5. VSS Exchange backup
      1. GUI VSS full backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
      2. CLI VSS full backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
      3. GUI VSS copy backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
      4. CLI copy backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
      5. GUI VSS offloaded backup
      6. CLI VSS offloaded backup
      7. GUI VSS local backup
      8. CLI VSS local backup
      9. GUI VSS backup to both
      10. CLI VSS backup to both
      11. Tivoli Storage Manager server sessions for a VSS backup
      12. Exchange file spaces in Tivoli Storage Manager
    6. Legacy Exchange restore
    7. VSS Exchange restore
      1. VSS restore (1/2)
      2. VSS restore (2/2)
      3. VSS fast restore
      4. VSS Instant Restore
      5. Tivoli Storage Manager server sessions for a VSS restore
    8. Using vssadmin and vshadow commands
  7. Chapter 5: Operations
    1. Automating backups
      1. Sample procedure
      2. Installing the Tivoli Storage Manager scheduler client on the Exchange server
      3. Automating the backup schedule
      4. Scheduling a VSS Exchange backup
    2. Scheduler considerations
    3. Monitoring backups
      1. Log management
    4. Verifying backups
      1. Tivoli Storage Manager activity log messages
    5. Performance considerations
    6. Managing snapshot-based backups
    7. Troubleshooting tips
  8. Appendix A: Disabling SSL in the SVC CIMOM
    1. Disable SSL
  9. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. How to get IBM Redbooks
    5. Help from IBM
  10. Index (1/2)
  11. Index (2/2)
  12. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to Back Up Microsoft Exchange with VSS
  • Author(s): Charlotte Brooks, Paulo Neto, Sean Ramnarayan
  • Release date: November 2006
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None