Hi Daniel, I am not sure if this is a mail glitch or you did not see my answer from yesterday, but here it is:
http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/msg96157.html Del ---------------------------------------------------- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu> wrote on 01/14/2014 10:23:34 AM: > From: "Weidacher, Daniel" <daniel.weidac...@infonova.com> > To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, > Date: 01/15/2014 03:30 AM > Subject: FCM Exchange 2010 DAG LOCAL Backup > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu> > > Hello, > > I have been handed over the task of backing up our MS Exchange 2010 > DAG Environment with TSM and Flashcopy Manager. > I worked out the basic concept of only doing backups of the passive > Databases via an additional DAG node that is only used for these backups. > Now the plan is to do 1 full backup and 6 incremental backups each > week with a retention of one month to a "local" disk (the DAG > Databases and the backups will be on a Storwize V7000), plus a > monthly full backup to TSM with 1 year retention. > > I have no experiance with Exchange, and only have one Node with SQL > Server 2012 FCM 6.4 installed. I know FCM somehow fused with TDP... > Now to cut to the chase: > - Is it possible to do Incremental VSS backups of an exchange database? > - How do I get FCM to backup to local disk? In the GUI the setting > is always grayed out... > > > Any help would be really appreciated... > > Kind Regards, > Daniel