Microsoft Exchange

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4.1.3 Selecting Items to Back Up
In this step of the wizard you have to specify which items to back up.
In the left pane of the window select an information store with Microsoft Exchange
installed and expand it to view and specify storage groups to back up. In case an
information store is selected, all associated storage groups will also be selected.
Information on the selected item is displayed in the right pane of the window:
information store name, installed operating system and the number of storage groups.
In case you are using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, make sure Microsoft
Messaging API and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 are installed (they are
included in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 product, but will not be installed
by default). Visit Microsoft website:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94274318-27c4-
4d8d-9bc5-3e6484286b1f&DisplayLang=en
Note, this version of the package is now compatible with Windows Vista and
Windows Server 2008.
Selecting Information Stores to Back Up
When selecting an information store to back up Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange will
automatically back up all of the storage groups associated with this information store.
A list of information stores can be obtained, with the connected user’s
privileges that cannot be changed.
Note, Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange does not back up the Active
Directory. This means, that even there were any changes after a backup
archive was created, after restoring the Microsoft Exchange Server structure
will remain the same as it was before the restoration process. As a result,
while restoring information stores, only storage groups will be restored one by
one. For example, mailboxes created or deleted after the last backup, will still
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