Backing Up Microsoft Exchange Server Data

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If a deduplicating vault is selected as a backup destination, full backups can be obtained by

backing up only the changes that occurred since the last full backup. To do this, select the Create

full backups using the Express full backup method check box. For more information on express

backups, see "Express full backup method" (p. 26).

 Transaction log

Specify on what schedule (Add schedule...) to perform a transaction log backup.

If the archive contains no full backups at the time of the task run, a full backup is created instead

of the transaction log backup.

Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes

If you selected Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes data type, the following backup types are available:

 Full backup

Specify on what schedule (Add schedule...) to perform a full mailbox backup.

 Incremental backup

Specify on what schedule (Add schedule...) to perform an incremental mailbox backup.

If the archive contains no backups at the time of the task run, a full backup is created instead of

the incremental backup.

Clean up archive

Specify how to get rid of old backups: either to apply retention rules regularly or clean up the archive

during a backup when the destination location runs out of space.

By default, the retention rules are not specified. This means older backups will not be deleted

automatically.

Note, in the Advanced settings of the Retention rules window for Exchange backups there is no

option to consolidate a backup to be moved or deleted that has dependencies. The outdated backup

(marked with the icon) will be kept until all backups that depend on it also become outdated.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 during the regular cleanup. If you chose moving outdated

backups to the next location, the backup will be copied there without delay. Only its deletion from

the current location is postponed.

Replication

[Optional] Specify whether to copy backups to another location. For more information about backup

replication, see the "Setting up replication of backups" of the product Help or the User Guide for

Acronis Backup Advanced.

When to validate

[Optional] Define when and how often to perform validation and whether to validate the entire

archive or the latest backup in the archive.

5.4 Backup modes

5.4.1 Express full backup method

The express full backup method allows creating full backups of Exchange information stores, storage

groups, or databases in deduplicating vaults. With this method, Acronis Backup backs up only the

changes that have occurred since the previous full backup. The data that has not changed is replaced

with links to it in a newly created backup.