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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2 Overview
Acronis Backup enables you to back up the Mailbox server role of Microsoft Exchange Server.
Mailbox servers host mailboxes and public folders. This data is most critical for any Exchange
organization.
The following is a summary of the product's key features.
Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 (p. 7)
Acronis Backup can back up and recover Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 databases. Backup and
recovery of Exchange 2016 mailboxes are not supported.
Express full backup method (p. 26)
This method is based on monitoring changes of the Exchange database files. Once the initial full
backup is taken, all subsequent backups will only back up changes to this database without
needing to read the entire database file. Combining this method with the data deduplication
functionality makes it possible to back up large databases of 1TB or more during business hours
and even over WANs.
Exchange clustering support (p. 48)
Acronis Backup supports SCC, CCR and DAG cluster configurations. You can choose to back up
database replicas rather than active databases for minimal production impact. If the Mailbox role
is moved to another server due to a switchover or a failover, the software will track all
relocations of the data and safely back it up.
Continuous Data Protection (p. 13)
By using Continuous Data Protection, you can revert Exchange data to almost any point in time. If
the most recent transaction log file survived, you can revert Exchange data to the point of failure.
Backup destinations (p. 8)
The backups can be saved to any type of storage supported by Acronis Backup, except for Acronis
Cloud Storage, Acronis Secure Zone, and removable media.
Enhanced granular recovery (p. 31)
Browse Exchange Server database or mailbox backups and recover single or multiple mailboxes
or just specific e-mails. You can also recover calendar items, notes, tasks and journal entries.
New recovery destinations
Besides being able to recover data to a live Exchange server, you can recover
Exchange databases to regular disk folders (p. 36).
E-mails and mailboxes to .pst files (p. 38).