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\subsection{Concepts}
+Although it is possible to backup Exchange using Bacula VSS the Exchange
+plugin adds a good deal of functionality, because while Bacula VSS
+completes a full backup (snapshot) of Exchange, it does
+not support Incremental or Differential backups, restoring is more
+complicated, and a single database restore is not possible.
+
Microsoft Exchange organises its storage into Storage Groups with
Databases inside them. A default installation of Exchange will have a
single Storage Group called 'First Storage Group', with two Databases
The plugin allows backing up of entire storage groups, and the restoring
of entire storage groups or individual databases. Backing up and
restoring at the individual mailbox or email item is not supported but
-can be simulated by use of the Recovery Storage Group (see below).
+can be simulated by use of the "Recovery" Storage Group (see below).
\subsection{Installing}
Incremental or Differential backup size but otherwise does not cause any
problems.
+By default, a normal VSS fileset containing all the drive letters will
+also back up the Exchange databases using VSS. This will interfere with
+the plugin and Exchange's shared ideas of when the last full backup was
+done, and may also truncate log files incorrectly. It is important,
+therefore, that the Exchange database files be excluded from the backup,
+although the folders the files are in should be included, or they will
+have to be recreated manually if a baremetal restore is done.
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+FileSet {
+ Include {
+ File = C:/Program Files/Exchsrvr/mdbdata
+ Plugin = "exchange:..."
+ }
+ Exclude {
+ File = C:/Program Files/Exchsrvr/mdbdata/E00.chk
+ File = C:/Program Files/Exchsrvr/mdbdata/E00.log
+ File = C:/Program Files/Exchsrvr/mdbdata/E000000F.log
+ File = C:/Program Files/Exchsrvr/mdbdata/E0000010.log
+ File = C:/Program Files/Exchsrvr/mdbdata/E0000011.log
+ File = C:/Program Files/Exchsrvr/mdbdata/E00tmp.log
+ File = C:/Program Files/Exchsrvr/mdbdata/priv1.edb
+ }
+}
+\end{verbatim}
+
+The advantage of excluding the above files is that you can significantly
+reduce the size of your backup since all the important Exchange files
+will be properly saved by the Plugin.
+
+
\subsection{Restoring}
The restore operation is much the same as a normal Bacula restore, with
the following provisos:
\begin{itemize}
-\item The 'Where' restore option must not be specified
+\item The {\bf Where} restore option must not be specified
\item Each Database directory must be marked as a whole. You cannot just
select (say) the .edb file and not the others.
\item If a Storage Group is restored, the directory of the Storage Group
\item It is possible to restore only a subset of the available log files,
but they {\bf must} be contiguous. Exchange will fail to restore correctly
if a log file is missing from the sequence of log files
-\item Each database to be restored must be dismounted and marked as 'Can be
- overwritten by restore'
+\item Each database to be restored must be dismounted and marked as "Can be
+ overwritten by restore"
\item If an entire Storage Group is to be restored (eg all databases and
logs in the Storage Group), then it is best to manually delete the
database files from the server (eg C:\verb+\+Program Files\verb+\+Exchsrvr\verb+\+mdbdata\verb+\+*)
The concept of the Recovery Storage Group is well documented by
Microsoft
\elink{http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824126}{http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824126},
-but to briefly summarise...
+but to briefly summarize...
Microsoft Exchange allows the creation of an additional Storage Group
called the Recovery Storage Group, which is used to restore an older
-copy of a database (eg before a mailbox was deleted) into without
+copy of a database (e.g. before a mailbox was deleted) into without
messing with the current live data. This is required as the Standard and
Small Business Server versions of Exchange can not ordinarily have more
than one Storage Group.
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