HP Application Recovery Manager software Integration guide (March 2008)

10. You can run backup using one of the following methods:

• Schedule the backup of an existing Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Writers

backup specification using the Application Recovery Manager Scheduler.

• Start an interactive backup of an existing Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy

Writers backup specification.

VSS specific backup options

Table 4 VSS specific backup options

DescriptionOption

Specify a command that will be started by vssbar.exe on the

application system before the backup. Do not use double quotes. Type

only the name of the command, not the pathname. The command must

reside in AppRM_home\bin.

Pre-exec

Specify a command that will be started by vssbar.exe on the

application system after the backup. Do not use double quotes. Type only

the name of the command, not the pathname. The command must reside

in AppRM_home\bin.

Post-exec

Microsoft Exchange Server writer backup specifics

The Microsoft Exchange Server Writer supports the following Microsoft Exchange

backup types:

Backup types

The Microsoft Exchange Server Writer supports the following Microsoft Exchange

backup types:

• Full - backs up databases, transaction logs, and checkpoint files. The transaction

logs are truncated.

• Copy - a Full backup, but the logs are not truncated. This type of backup is not

intended for use in recovering failed systems.

Limitations

• You can back up only the whole server or full storage groups. Single stores cannot

be backed up.

• With Exchange Server 2003, only one VSS backup session can be running on

the same application system at once. With Exchange Server 2007, only one VSS

Integrating the Application Recovery Manager ZDB integrations and Microsoft Volume

Shadow Copy Service