Well... "storage groups" is a term specific to Exchange 2000 or later; Exchange 5.5 has only the directory store (DS) and information store (IS). The backups (and restores) on 5.5 are restricted to either/both of those two components... for good reasons -- performance and integrity. In Exchange 2000, there is a reserved storage group (0); if you need to recover a given user's mailbox, you restore the group he's in, using the group-0, then extract to .PST. In Exchange 5.5, you needed to have a separate, warm stand-by machine to restore the entire IS.
NEW NEWS: There is now (or soon to be) a special, adjunct product from Microsoft to support mailbox restores, using a "scan" of the storage group containing the user in question. It was discussed at SHARE in SF, will come out in the proceedings (for members) in a few weeks. Watch for MS ExMerge, a tool to extract mailboxes from Exchange server to .PST files, then use b/a client to backup. Alternatively, check out the combination of TSM for Mail, ExMerge and IBM's CommonStore product (usually used for long-term archiving). Check out these MS TechNet articles... Q174197 - XADM: Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge Program ( ... ... XADM: Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge Program (Exmerge.exe) Information Q265441 - XADM: Some Questions and Answers About the Exmerge ... Hope this helps. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian Astuni Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exchange bases ... Hi people ... Last Monday I installed the Tivoli Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange 2.2 in a Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 I configured all the files and I can see the "Directory Information" and the "Storage Groups" as all. My question is: Is possible to make a backup only a one exchange base of one person, I need to make a backup to selective mailbox??? If the response is "yes" .. How do this, because only I can see as groups of all mailbox. Thank you very much for yours help, I appreciated that very much. Best Regards. Christian Astuni IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 4898-4621 Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 - Martmnez (1640) Bs. As. - Argentina =
