Thank you, that really explains a lot to me :) However, I will have to use FCM 3.2, since 4.1 requires Powershell 3.0 and our Exchange Admin does not want to install it on our servers, even if theoretically it is compatible with Exchange 2010 SP3 on Server 2008.
So I for every Database I want to protect, I need three volumes. - one for the Database itself (DAG passive copy) - one for the transaction logs - one "VSS Shadow Volume" to store the snapshots of DB and logs. And since the snapshots are on volume level, the snapshot will be as big as the volume, not the database/logs itself. If I have a 200GB Database volume with 25GB logsize each day, I would make the log LUN 75GB so if the Backup fails on Friday night and the logs are not truncated, I would have time until Monday to fix the issue. That makes 200GB+(6x75GB)=650GB at least for one week. Plus I need to take into account database growing. Is this logic correct? How would you do it? Best Regards, Daniel -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Mittwoch, 15. Jänner 2014 12:42 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] FCM Exchange 2010 DAG LOCAL Backup 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 ________________________________ INFONOVA GmbH Sitz: Unterpremstätten bei Graz Firmenbuchgericht: Landesgericht für ZRS Graz Firmenbuchnummer: FN 44354b The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system.
