Software Suite for Microsoft Exchange Licenses Owner's manual

• Mount virtual copies on Windows hosts on which Recovery Manager is installed
• Mount virtual copies with read/write permissions
• Unmount virtual copies
• Delete virtual copies
• Backup using HP Data Protector or Symantec NetBackup
• Restore from backup using HP Data Protector or Symantec NetBackup
• File Copy restore
• Volume restore
• Public folders
• Co-existence with autonomic groups (domain sets, volume sets, and host sets)
• Recovery Manager GUI
• Recovery Manager CLI
• Cross–Windows-domain support
• HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software (in both synchronous and asynchronous periodic mode)
• Queueing of virtual copy creation and backup for different mailbox databases from the same
backup server
Features Not Supported
• VSS backup types “Incremental,” “Differential,” “Copy,” and “Log”
• A single Exchange server spanning different HP 3PAR Storage Systems
• All backup tools, except for HP Data Protector and Symantec NetBackup
• Access to the HP 3PAR Storage System via SSH
• Creation of virtual copy on System Boot Volume
• Windows automount feature
• Date customization: Recovery Manager always displays dates in month/day/year format
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
Microsoft includes VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) in Windows to simplify the enterprise’s
storage environment. It provides a framework for creating a point-in-time copy of either a single
volume or multiple volumes.
Microsoft Windows Server VSS works with the VSS-aware applications that are in use to determine
when a volume shadow copy (snapshot) can be made. (A snapshot is a virtual copy: a copy of
some data set, for example, a disk volume, at a point in time.) VSS then communicates with the
operating system and applications and freezes I/O to thestorage system to allow snapshot creation
(without the freeze function, data could become corrupted when the snapshot is taken because the
system might be in the middle of a task). Meanwhile, applications continue to run uninterrupted.
The original volume continues to change as the process continues, but the shadow copy of the
volume remains constant. VSS also gives permission to the backup application to access the volume
and back it up in its frozen state. The shadow copy volume is then used for the actual backup.
After VSS saves the shadow copy volume on the backup device, it deletes the shadow copy.
VSS coordinates between Requestors (backup applications such as Recovery Manager), Writers,
and Providers (components that create the shadow copies).
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