Backing Up Microsoft Exchange Server Data
Table Of Contents
- 1 Important notices
- 2 Overview
- 3 General information
- 4 Getting started with Agent for Exchange
- 5 Backup
- 6 Recovery
- 7 Exchange servers on a management server
- 8 Backing up and recovering data of Exchange clusters
- 9 Exchange-specific backup options
- 10 Glossary
- Checkpoint file
- Circular logging
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
- Copy-only backup
- Database-level backup
- Exchange database
- Express full backup
- Information store (Exchange store, Managed store)
- Mailbox-level backup
- Point of failure
- Storage group
- Transaction log backup (Exchange)
- Transaction log file (Exchange)
- Transaction log file truncation (Exchange)
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3.6 Supported operations with database and mailbox
backups
This section describes how the standard Acronis Backup operations are supported for database and
mailbox backups.
Functionality
Database backup
Mailbox backup
Backup
Simplified naming of
backup files
N/A
N/A
Custom backup scheme >
Retention rules >
Advanced Settings
There is no option to consolidate an
Exchange backup to be moved or
deleted that has dependencies. For
more information, see the Custom
scheme (p. 25) section.
N/A
Operations with backups in vaults
Exporting backups
Backups that have no dependencies
are exported without any
limitations.
When exporting a transaction log
backup, the data from the backup
chain (a full database backup and its
dependent transaction log backups
up to the selected one) is copied to a
single backup.
Transaction log files will be applied
to the database during recovery.
Backups that have no dependencies
are exported without any limitations.
When exporting an incremental
mailbox backup, the data from the
backup chain (a full mailbox backup
and all of its incremental backups up
to the selected one) is consolidated
into a single backup.
Converting a backup to
full
N/A
N/A
Deleting backups
Backups that have no dependencies are deleted without any limitations.
A backup that has dependencies cannot be deleted separately from all its
dependent backups.
To delete a backup with dependencies manually, you should delete the
entire backup chain (a full backup and all its dependent transaction log
backups or incremental backups).
If you set the retention rules to delete backups older than the specified age,
the outdated backup (marked with the icon) will be kept until all
backups that depend on it also become outdated. Then, all the chain will be
deleted at once.
3.7 Supported operations with legacy archives and
backups
Acronis Backup supports archives and backups created with Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange.
The table below shows which actions are available for legacy archives and backups.