Installation guide

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Table of contents
1 Important notices ....................................................................................................................... 5
2 Overview .................................................................................................................................... 5
3 General information ................................................................................................................... 6
3.1 Agent for Exchange ............................................................................................................... 6
3.2 Supported operating systems ............................................................................................... 6
3.3 Supported Microsoft Exchange Server versions ..................................................................... 7
3.4 Supported backup locations .................................................................................................. 7
3.5 Permissions for Exchange backup and recovery .................................................................... 8
3.6 Supported operations with database and mailbox backups ................................................... 9
3.7 Supported operations with legacy archives and backups ..................................................... 10
4 Getting started with Agent for Exchange.................................................................................. 11
4.1 Simple scenario - a single Exchange server .......................................................................... 11
4.2 Advanced scenario - CDP of an Exchange cluster ................................................................. 13
4.2.1 Prerequisites........................................................................................................................................................... 13
4.2.2 Installation .............................................................................................................................................................. 13
4.2.3 Connecting the console to the management server ....................................................................................... 14
4.2.4 Creating a deduplicating vault ............................................................................................................................. 15
4.2.5 Backup ..................................................................................................................................................................... 15
4.2.6 Recovery ................................................................................................................................................................. 16
5 Backup ...................................................................................................................................... 17
5.1 How Exchange data is organized ......................................................................................... 17
5.2 What data items can be backed up and what backup types are used?................................. 20
5.3 Backup schemes ................................................................................................................. 22
5.3.1 Simple scheme ....................................................................................................................................................... 22
5.3.2 Continuous Data Protection (CDP) scheme ...................................................................................................... 23
5.3.3 Manual start scheme ............................................................................................................................................ 24
5.3.4 Custom scheme ..................................................................................................................................................... 24
5.4 Backup modes .................................................................................................................... 25
5.4.1 Express full backup method ................................................................................................................................. 25
5.4.2 Copy-only backup .................................................................................................................................................. 29
6 Recovery................................................................................................................................... 30
6.1 What data items can be recovered? .................................................................................... 30
6.2 Selecting data to recover .................................................................................................... 30
6.2.1 Selecting the Exchange data by using the Data view or Data catalog .......................................................... 31
6.2.2 Selecting the Exchange data by using the Archive view.................................................................................. 32
6.2.3 Searching for specific items in mailboxes and public folders ......................................................................... 33
6.2.4 Point in time selection .......................................................................................................................................... 33
6.3 Selecting target destinations for databases or storage groups............................................. 34
6.3.1 Recovering storage groups or databases to the original path ....................................................................... 34
6.3.2 Recovering storage groups or databases to a custom path ........................................................................... 34
6.3.3 Recovering databases or storage groups to the specified folder .................................................................. 35