Specifications

Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing Exchange 2013
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Figure 61: Key capabilities of Data Protection Manager
DPM provides continuous data protection for Exchange Server. DPM performs replication,
synchronization, and recovery point creation to provide reliable protection and rapid recovery of
Exchange data by both system administrators and end users. DPM also allows users to exclude virtual
machine page files from incremental backups to improve storage usage and backup performance.
Organizations can back up and restore critical data using Exchange-aware applications that also support
VSS Writer for Exchange 2013. The VSS component of Windows Server coordinates the activities of
providers, writers, and requesters for applications that create and use shadow copies. These applications
consist of a background service that performs the backup, a scheduling service that times the backup, and
a Windows GUI application console that controls and configures the backup and restore system.
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DPM protects databases for Exchange 2013 that are contained in a DAG. DPM also can be used to recover
Exchange 2013 mailboxes and mailbox databases.
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DPM supports the following types of recovery for
Exchange 2013 mailboxes:
 Recover to an Exchange Server database: Recover only to Exchange Server recovery databases.
 Recover to a network location: Copy the database to a network folder.
 Copy to tape: Create an on-tape copy of the database.
Likewise, DPM supports the following five types of recovery for Exchange 2013 mailbox databases:
 Recover the database to its original location: Overwrite the existing copy of the database.
 Recover the database to an alternate database: Restore to another database on an Exchange
Server.
 Recover to an Exchange Recovery database: Recover to an Exchange Recovery database
instead of a standard mailbox database.
 Recover to network location: Copy the database to a network folder.
 Copy to tape: Create an on-tape copy of the database.