Rick,
In regards to Exchange Journaling...
As I understand it, Exchange journaling works by allowing you to
set up a separate mailbox to receive a copy of all email that is sent.
Since that specially-created mailbox is a normal Exchange Server
mailbox, it is eligible for standard backup and restore with
Data Protection for Exchange. In regards to archive and archive
management...
if you use IBM DB2 CommonStore for Exchange Server along with
IBM Content Management for Message Monitoring and Retention
you could archive that mailbox and make it completely searchable.
Here are some URLs to help explain those IBM solutions:
IBM DB2 CommonStore for Exchange Server
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/commonstore/exchange/
IBM Content Management for Message Monitoring and Retention
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cm/solution_cmmmr.html
A comment about Brick-level backups and restore for Exchange server:
With the size of Exchange Servers growing and growing,
many customers are finding that they need to run brick-level type
backups 24 hours a day, 7 days a week just to keep up with the
growing sizes of mailboxes. Microsoft has helped address this issue
with the addition of the Recovery Storage Group in Exchange 2003.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/ue2k3rsg.mspx
It allows you to restore a mailbox database to a special storage
group within the same Admin group (same or alternate server)
and then extract the mailbox of your choice. It does all this without
disturbing the online version of that mailbox database.
Adding the new Recovery Storage Group feature along with deleted
item restore and deleted mailbox restore has helped the reduce and
eliminate the need for performing the brick-level backups.
Thanks,
Del
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/03/2004
07:30:45 PM:
> I was referring specifically to TSM interacting with the Journaling
> aspect of Exchange. I appreciate the full response because I never
> honestly understood why TSM didnt write their own API like these
> other software packages. I understood all the aspects of using
> exmerge for an exchange recovery when using TSM. The windows
> administrator here at my company refuses to use TSM on our exchange
> servers due to the fact that he recovers individual mail and
> mailboxes regularly. Having to use exmerge to recover mail is to
> much work for him which is why we run backupexec on exchange and all
> other servers run TSM. Sorry if the question was insulting to you
> mark I was only asked for documentation because I have read the
> redbook concerning backing up an exchange server using TSM and there
> was no reference to journaling.
