Install exchange 2010 vss plugin

The VSS communicates with the appropriate storage provider to create a shadow copy of the storage volume that contains the Exchange Server databases. The VSS requestor verifies the physical consistency of the backup set prior to signaling the backup was successful. Exchange Server truncates the transaction logs if the database is part of a DAG, log truncation is replicated among all the copies and records the time of the last backup for the database.

Store Writer will be available on any Exchange Mailbox Server to provide the functionality to backup from and restore to the active copy of the database. Replication Writer will be available for use with copies of databases in a DAG. Typically the majority of time spent working with the shadow copy is spent after the OnPostSnapshot , when the consistency of the shadow copy is verified prior to completion of the backups.

Concurrent backups of the same database are not allowed in Exchange There can be only one single backup job running against a given database irrespective of whether the backups are done with the Store Writer or the Replication Writer. Backup initiated transaction log file truncation will be triggered based on the type of backup chosen.

In non-DAG configurations, the Store Writer will truncate the transaction log files at the completion of successful Full or Incremental backups. In DAG replicated configurations, log truncation will be delayed by the Replication service until all necessary log files are replayed into all other copies. The Replication service will delete the backed up log files both from the active and the copy log file paths after it verifies that the to-be-deleted log files have successfully been applied to the copy database and both active database and the database copies checkpoint has passed the log files to be deleted.

NET Framework 3. EMC ItemPoint 8. Supported versions of Microsoft Exchange are Exchange through Exchange Please note that because of updates and fixes being pushed by Microsoft to Windows 10 and Server , these operating systems may be difficult or impossible to configure as a GLR Proxy for ItemPoint. This is due to the operating system on some versions prohibiting the execution of applications e.

Figure Confirmation page. Figure Running consistency check for Exchange When the consistency check has completed, the backup of each LUN will begin. Figure Backup in progress. In order to follow the progress of the backup, we will leave it open.

Figure Backup completed. As you can see in Figure 19 the databases in the below figure MDB3 had plenty of log files that had not been committed before we ran the backup. Figure Log stream before the backup was taken. Now that the backup has been completed, let us verify the log files have been truncated on the mailbox server holding the active databases copy and the servers holding the passive database copies.

Figure Log stream after the backup was taken. When the log files have been truncated on the mailbox server holding, it is up to the Microsoft Exchange Replication Service on the other servers to truncate them for the passive database copies.

By opening the property page of one of the databases, we can also see that the last full backup property was updated. Figure Database property page with last full backup property updated.

Just remember to include the —Status parameter as this property field otherwise will be blank. Last thing I wanted to show you before we move on to the next section was the backup image files. Figure Backup image files. This concludes this first part of this multi part article uncovering the new Exchange-aware VSS plug-in included with Exchange In the next article, we will take a look at how you perform a restore both to the original location as well as an alternate location, in case you want to recover specific mailbox items for one or more mailboxes in a restored database.

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Introduction Ever since Exchange SP1 was released and Exchange admins and consultants started to deploy Exchange on Windows Server based servers, there has been a lot of frustration and complains about the inability to perform Exchange-aware backups and restores using Windows Server Backup. The plug-in can only perform VSS-based backups. Streaming backups are not supported with this plug-in. Backups occur at the volume level.

This means that all data on a volume will be backed up. The plug-in does not support remote VSS backups. The backup must be run locally on the respective Exchange Server.