Exchange Agent & Filters

[cgv]

Greetings. Im having trouble getting a clear answer on this.

I am backing up Exchange 2000 using the Exchange Agent (Brightstor Arcserve 11). I am doing full Information store as well as Brick level backups nightly.

Q: can I 'filter' the entire Exchange folder on the regular folder tree? I am already filtering the MDBDATA, but can I (or should I) filter the entire \EXCHANGE\ folder?

trying to reduce backup times here, and with info store and brick level backups, perhaps Im all set.

Thanks for any thoughts

 

[vschumpy]

Not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve, but if you have the Exchange DBAgent installed, then flat-file backup of the data files backed up by the Exchange agent should be automatically excluded, so that data is not backed up twice 9once as a filesystem, and once by the dbagent) and does not get file in use errors.

This behaviour can be configured by using the skipDSAfiles registry setting.

I said should be, as earlier unpatched versions prior to r11.1 didn't always do this.

 

[cgv]

Thanks for the reply.

OK... I'll take your word for it... that flat files backed up by the exchange agent are already skipped.