8 Working with Third-Party Applications
Data Protector Express provides agents for protecting a number of popular
Microsoft Exchange Server
Supported Platforms
The Data Protector Express Agent for Microsoft Exchange supports backup and restore operations for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and restoring from Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 (if backed up with a previous version of Data Protector Express)
Some editions of Data Protector Express do not provide a license to back up Exchange data. By default, an evaluation version of the Data Protector Express agent for Microsoft Exchange is installed automatically when you install Data Protector Express on a Windows server machine that is running Microsoft Exchange. You can use this evaluation license for 60 days. To continue using the agent, contact your sales representative to purchase an edition of Data Protector Express that supports Application agents.
Configuring a Microsoft Exchange Server
As with any other objects that are configurable in Data Protector Express, you can configure the Microsoft Exchange Server for backups if you have the correct permissions.
1.Open the Administration desk bar and select Catalog view.
2.Select Network, then locate and select the Microsoft Exchange Server on your system.
TIP: Switch to the Folders view to display a hierarchical tree of the Data Protector Express management domain.
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Update the following settings that control how Data Protector Express works with Microsoft Exchange Server.
Force Modes
The Backup mode setting of a backup job affects Microsoft Exchange Server databases differently than file types. The Force modes settings control how Data Protector Express backs up the databases.
NOTE: The settings here are only applicable to Microsoft Exchange Server databases; all other file types are backed up in the job’s default mode.
For example, if the Backup mode of a job is set to Incremental and the Force modes setting for incremental jobs is set to Full, Data Protector Express will back up the Exchange Server databases in Full mode, but all other file types in Incremental mode.
TIP: You can use this feature to ensure that the databases are always backed up in full mode, but that other objects are only backed up when changed. This guarantees the greatest security for the most crucial files (that is, the Exchange Server databases), while not making jobs unnecessarily large by not backing up the entire network (that is, by backing up only the changed files).
Full When the Backup mode of a job is set to Full, Data Protector Express checks this setting to see how the job should be run with Microsoft Exchange Server databases. Full is the only possible
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