Eric, we use TDP for Exchange 5.5.x on our Exchange 2007 servers. We have about 450GB spread over 10 databases that we perform a full backup on every night. During the day, we perform a standard TSM 5.5.x client backup of our logs every hour. The nightly fulls take about seven hours. My Exchange database is hosted on several LUNS over a 4Gb SAN.
Since our data fits into a backup window where users are not impacted by the full backup I did not implement TDP for Exchange on the passive node of our CCR cluster. TDP for Exchange does support that configuration if you need to take the backup load off your primary server. Ray -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Vaughn Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up Exchange 2007 with TSM Hello, Can anyone give me insight as to what products TSM has in conjunction with backing up Exchange 2007 with TSM? We have migrated off of groupwise and now have implemented Exchange. My concern with using the windows Baclient that we normally use with TSM will not back up exchange they way I would like. Since TSM would be backing up exchanges .edb files and transaction logs my concern is that the initial 700 gb backup will potentially grow out of control, even if I stager days. Does ibm offer a product that reads just the incremental changes of the database files as to limit the massive amount of space rather than backing up each .edb file each night, since tsm will see it as a new file and not a change (since TSM does incremental changes)? Or does anyone have any guidance as to what they have implemented? I also don't believe that a snapshot would be a solution either. Any help would be much appreciated. Eric Vaughn System Administrator Stevenson University 44-334-2301 ________________________________ Stevenson University 1525 Greenspring Valley Road, Stevenson MD 21153-0641 1-877-468-6852 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
