Data Protector Express User's Guide (TC330-96002, October 2010)

9WorkingwithThird-Party
Applications
Data Protector Express provides agents for protecting a number of popular third-part y applications.
These agents protect the applications using the application specic backup interfaces provided by the
application vendors to ensure complete protection of your data.
Microsoft Exchange Server
In this section
•Conguring
aMicrosoftExchangeServer
Backing up Microsoft Exchange Ser ver
Restoring Microsoft Exchange Databases
•DisasterRe
covery with Microsoft Exchange Server
Supported Platforms
The D ata Protector Express Agent for Microsoft Exchange supports ba ckup 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 D ata Protector Exp ress do not provide a license to backup 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 ser ver 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 Expressthat s upports Application agents.
Conguring a Microsof t Exchange Server
As with any other objects that are congurable in Data Protector Express, you can congure the Microsoft
ExchangeServerforbackupsifyouhavethecorrectpermissions.
1. Open the Administration desk b ar and select Catalog view .
2. Select Network, then locate a nd 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 Conguration command.
Update the following settings that control how D ata Protector Express works with Microsoft Exchange
Server.
Force Modes As explained in the next section, the Backup mode setting of a backup job affects
Microsoft Excha nge Server databases differently than le types. The Force modes settings control how
Data Protector Express backs up the databases.
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