Data Protector Express User Guide (TC330-96005, September 2011)

8 Working with Third-Party Applications
Data Protector Express provides agents for protecting a number of popular third-party applications.
These agents protect the applications using the application-specific backup interfaces provided by
the application vendors to ensure complete protection of your data.
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.
3. Right-click the server and select the Configuration command.
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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