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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Hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908072 must be installed.
Note It is important to keep your Exchange servers up-to-date. This ensures the best performance, integrity and
security for all Exchange services and data.
3.4 Supported backup locations
The table below shows which of Acronis Backup backup locations are supported by Agent for
Exchange.
Storages
General
Backup specific
Recovery specific
Backup and
Recovery
Express
full
backup
mode
CDP
backup
scheme
Granular
recovery
Recovery
using
Acronis
Active
Restore
Acronis Cloud Storage
-
-
-
-
-
Personal vaults
+
-
+
+
+
Acronis Secure Zone
-
-
-
-
-
Centralized vaults
+
+
Dedup.
vaults
only
+
+
+
Local folders
+
-
+
+
+
Removable media (CD, DVD, BD, Floppy), and
external storages (RDX, USB HDD, USB Flash
Drives) in the "Removable media" mode.
-
-
-
-
-
External storages (RDX, USB HDD, USB Flash
Drives) in the "Fixed drive" mode.
+
-
+
+
+
Tape devices
+
-
-
-
-
Network folders
+
-
+
+
+
FTP/SFTP
+
-
-
+
-
3.5 Permissions for Exchange backup and recovery
The table below contains the minimal permissions required to back up and recover Exchange server
data.
When creating a backup plan, ensure that the account with the required permissions is specified
in What to back up > Access credentials.
When creating a recovery task, ensure that the account with the required permissions is
specified in Where to recover > Access credentials.
To be able to back up, recover, and browse mailboxes, ensure that the account you use resides in
the same forest as the Exchange server and is associated with a mailbox. The mailbox database
containing the associated mailbox must be mounted. The mailbox has to be initialized. In
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2007, and 2010, the mailbox has to be available in a global
address list.