Geoff, I'm not completely clear what is going on with your Exchange backup. However, I would strongly recommend you work with your Exchange admins and the TDP for Exchange client install and configuration document to confirm your backup nodes are configured correctly. You must use a proxy node configuration for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 backups. The TDP for Exchange has minimum version requirements depending on Exchange version and service pack release--I do not recall the specifics.
Ray Storer NIBCO INC. 574.295.3457 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Geoff Gill Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Exchange backups Looking for some Exchange knowledge. Last week admin ID's for nodes were being removed and it was discovered 2 days later that this broke the Exchange backups. Once they were put back backups started working again but what confuses me is when comparing 2 different sites things seems to work differently as it relates to Exchange. I have no access to the client side, only the TSM server, so I can't relay anything except what I see here. At one site the nodes are set up just like any other node it looks like. Licensing shows 2 Exchange TDP in use but when looking at q no the platform shows WinNt. These nodes do NOT have an associated admin ID that I can find and backups work just fine. Why things report the way they do I don't understand. The second site licensing shows 6 Exchange TDP in use and q no on these show the Platform as TDP MSExchg. These nodes are also configured with Proxynode Agents too whereas the first site is not. Why this I don't understand either. Since I don't know much about Exchange backups in general I would have assumed based on the first site this would be the normal way they would be set up. This second site is the one that Exchange backups stopped working when the Admin ID's were deleted. I put everything back and backups work now but when looking at the admin ID's it seems as though only one of them shows Days Since Last Access 1 so I don't know if removing the others would break this again or not. Support told me these Admin ID's need to be there for Exchange to work but this doesn't seem to be the case at the site that works where are no admin ID's there are not associated with an Exchange node. Hopefully someone has some explanation for this. Thank You Geoff Gill ________________________________ 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.
