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 General information
3.1 Agent for Exchange
Backing up Exchange data becomes available by using Acronis Backup Agent for Exchange.
The agent is included in the setup program of Acronis Backup Advanced.
The agent is installed with Agent for Windows or on a machine where Agent for Windows is already
installed.
Agent for Exchange requires one of the following licenses:
Acronis Backup Advanced for Exchange
Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials
Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware / Hyper-V / RHEV / Citrix XenServer / Oracle VM
Acronis Backup Advanced Universal License
Each of these licenses enables you to install Agent for Windows on the same machine. Therefore, you
can back up the entire machine in addition to Exchange databases and mailboxes.
If Agent for Windows is already installed, you can install Agent for Exchange by using the Acronis
Backup Advanced for Exchange Add-On license.
To use the product in the trial mode, you do not need licenses.
3.2 Supported operating systems
Agent for Exchange can be installed in the following operating systems:
Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 – Standard and Enterprise editions (x86, x64)
Windows Small Business Server 2003/2003 R2
Windows Server 2008 – Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (x86, x64)
Windows Small Business Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2 – Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, and Foundation editions
Windows Small Business Server 2011 – all editions
Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 – Standard and Datacenter editions
3.3 Supported Microsoft Exchange Server versions
Agent for Exchange supports the following versions of Microsoft Exchange Server:
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 – all editions.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 – all editions, Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) and later.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010 – all editions, all service packs.
The Messaging API Client and Collaboration Data Objects (version 1.2.1) package must be
installed. To download and install this package, visit
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36771.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 – all editions, SP2 or later.