Which brings us to the achilles heel of this design. Even if you backup
from the passive node of a CCR cluster, you can only restore to the active
node. From the MSExchange team link it's a bit more convolted, "Essentially
the Exchange VSS Store Writer is responsible for the backup and restore of
the active database and the Replication Writer is responsible for the backup
of the replica database. A restore of a backup of a replica database,
however, is controlled by the VSS Store Writer."
If you go this route, you have to fail the cluster over in order to restore
a single mailbox. Put another way, restoring a single mailbox impacts all
of the users on the cluster.
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Post by Peter O'Dowd (MVP)DPM 2007
To restore a mailbox - simply select it from the DPM 2007 console and it
handles the process of restoring the mailbox's database to an appropriate
Recovery Storage Group (RSG), and then selectively mounts just that
mailbox for extraction and recovery - the right way.
taken from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/6/E/86EBB3CA-5CC4-4E22-ADB4-F972CD907EAA/DPM2007_datasheet_How_to_protect_Exchange.doc
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Post by John L.Is there a way to perform a brick level backup of the Exchange 2000 data
store without implementing (or installing) 3rd party software products?
Thanks for your advise.
John.