SnapManager® 7.2 for Microsoft® Exchange Server Administration Guide January 2019 | 215-10626_C0 [email protected] Table of Contents | 3 Contents Product overview .......................................................................................... 8 Backing up and verifying your databases ................................................ 10 SnapManager backup overview ................................................................................ 10 SnapManager naming conventions ............................................................................ 10 Defining a backup strategy ........................................................................................ 11 Backing up your databases for the first time ............................................................. 14 Verifying the initial backup set .................................................................................. 15 Scheduling recurring backups ................................................................................... 16 Scheduling frequent recovery point backups ............................................................ 17 Backup planning for databases in DAGs ................................................................... 17 Backing up using the Backup wizard ........................................................................ 19 Creating backups using the Backup and Verify window ........................................... 20 Using the remote additional copy backup feature ..................................................... 22 Configuring gapless DAG backups using remote additional copy ................ 23 Managing backups using Remote Additional Copy Backup ........................ 24 control.xml file settings for remote additional copy backup ......................... 25 Using Database Filter to display databases to back up in a DAG ............................. 26 What the Activation Preference Number of a mailbox database is ............... 27 Managing backup retention ....................................................................................... 27 Maximum number of Snapshot copies per volume ....................................... 27 Criteria for deleting backups ......................................................................... 28 Managing multiple backup management groups .......................................... 29 Automatically deleting backups .................................................................... 30 Automatic deletion of orphaned SnapInfo folders ........................................ 30 Explicitly deleting backups ........................................................................... 31 Managing database verification ................................................................................. 35 LUN requirements for verifying databases in a backup set .......................... 36 Database verification workload management ............................................... 36 Backup verification status reporting .............................................................. 38 Where to run database and transaction log integrity verification .................. 38 When to verify the databases in a backup set ................................................ 38 Managing transaction log backups ............................................................................ 39 Backup options .............................................................................................. 39 Triggering UTM retention ............................................................................. 39 Option to back up transaction logs that Exchange will truncate ................... 43 Frequent Recovery Point backup and restore operations .............................. 43 Changing the backup management group of an existing backup set ........................ 45 Reasons that a SnapManager backup might fail ....................................................... 46 Problem: cluster failover during backup ....................................................... 46 Problem: Snapshot copy limit reached .......................................................... 46 Problem: SnapInfo directory being accessed ................................................ 46 4 | SnapManager 7.2 for Microsoft Exchange Server Administration Guide Problem: SnapInfo directory out of space ..................................................... 47 Problem: data does not match ....................................................................... 47 Problem: busy Snapshot copy ....................................................................... 47 Problem: Snapshot copy already exists ......................................................... 47 Problem: out of disk space ............................................................................ 47 Problem: SnapManager server initialization failed ....................................... 47 Troubleshooting integrity verification failure on SnapMirror destination volumes ................................................................................................................ 47 Restoring databases .................................................................................... 49 When to choose SnapManager restore to recover Exchange mailbox databases ...... 49 What SnapManager restore does ............................................................................... 49 Types of SnapManager Restore operations ................................................... 50 Snapshot copies created during a restore process ......................................... 50 Methods that can decrease restore process time ............................................ 50 Transaction log sequence verification options .............................................. 51 LUN Clone Split Restore method ................................................................. 51 SnapManager restore operations in DAG environments ............................... 52 Guidelines for using SnapManager restore ............................................................... 53 Which type of restore operation to perform .................................................. 53 Guidelines for restoring from a SnapManager backup copy ......................... 53 Restoring from a SnapManager backup copy ........................................................... 54 Decisions to make before restoring from a SnapManager backup copy ....... 54 Restoring databases using the Restore wizard .............................................. 55 Restoring databases using the Restore window ............................................ 56 Restoring Exchange databases in a DAG .................................................................. 59 Backups available for restore in a DAG ........................................................ 59 Restoring a backup copy created on a different server .................................. 60 Reseeding a failed database copy in a DAG .................................................. 61 Using a Recovery Database ....................................................................................... 62 Limitations of using a Recovery Database .................................................... 62 Restoring a mailbox database to the Recovery Database in Exchange Server ....................................................................................................... 63 When to delete a Recovery Database ............................................................ 64 Restoring mailboxes from unmanaged media ............................................... 64 Troubleshooting restore operations ........................................................................... 65 Mailbox restore operation using Single Mailbox Recovery .................... 66 Recovering mailbox data ........................................................................................... 66 Cleaning up after Single Mailbox Recovery ............................................................. 67 What SnapManager reports contain ........................................................ 68 SnapManager reports in a DAG ................................................................................ 68 Reasons to change the report directory location ....................................................... 68 Changing the SnapManager report directory ............................................................ 68 Locating the report directory in a DAG ..................................................................... 69 Viewing SnapManager reports .................................................................................. 69 Printing SnapManager reports ................................................................................... 69 Table of Contents | 5 Deleting SnapManager reports .................................................................................. 70 Control of report auto-archiving ................................................................................ 70 Modifying your database configuration on NetApp storage .................. 71 Moving Exchange data with the Configuration wizard ............................................. 71 Moving an individual database to a LUN ................................................................. 72 Changing the location of a database .......................................................................... 72 Viewing the full path for database files ....................................................................