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Backup/Restore Individual Brick Level Backup for Microsoft Exchange Server

This page will describe in detail how to configure the online backup manager to backup and restore brick level Exchange mail box.

Requirements

i. Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 with Services Pack 3 and post-SP3 update rollup installed. Please refer to http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/ for more information.

ii. The online backup manager must be installed onto the computer running Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 / 2003.

Overview

Brick Level Backup for Microsoft Exchange Server is not designed to fully protect an Exchange server, but to facilitate easy backup and fast restore of individual emails, contacts, calendars, tasks etc. The brick level restore cannot fully recover the Information Store after a disaster. If used, a brick level backup must be utilized in conjunction with full Information Store Backup, in order to fully protect the exchange server.

Granting Privileges

Brick Level Backup requires “Full Mailbox Access” permission for the user running the online backup manager. Normally, the online backup manager can acquire the permission on it’s own but if you encounter ‘Access Denied’ errors you need to manually grant access privileges to the user running the online backup manager using one of the following instructions below:

For one specific mailbox

Use the following procedure to grant access to an Exchange 2000 or an Exchange 2003 mailbox:

1 Start Active Directory Users and Computers.

2 On the View menu, ensure that the Advanced Features check box is selected.

3 Right-click the user whose mailbox you want to give permissions to and choose Properties.

4 On the Exchange Advanced tab, click Mailbox Rights.

5 Notice that the Domain Admins and Enterprise Admins have both been given Deny access to Full Mailbox access.

6 Click Add, click the user or group who you want to have access to this mailbox, and then click OK.

7 Be sure that the user or group is selected in the Name box.

8 In the Permissions list, click Allow next to Full Mailbox Access, and then click OK.

9 Click Ok all the way out.

10 Restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store.

For mailboxes located within a specific mailbox store

Use the following procedure to grant access to an Exchange 2000 or an Exchange 2003 mailbox found on a specific mailbox store:

1 Start Exchange System Manager.

2 Drill down to your server object within the appropriate Administrative Group. Expand the server object and find the required mailbox store within the appropriate Storage Group. Right-click it and choose Properties.

3 In the Properties window go to the Security tab.

4 Click Add, click the user or group who you want to have access to the mailboxes, and then click OK.

5 Be sure that the user or group is selected in the Name box.

6 In the Permissions list, click Allow next to Full Control, and then click OK.

7 Click 'Apply' and 'OK'

8 Restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store.

For mailboxes located within a specific server

1 Start Exchange System Manager.

2 Drill down to your server object within the appropriate Administrative Group. Right-click it and choose Properties.

3 In the Properties window go to the Security tab.

4 Click Add, click the user or group who you want to have access to the mailboxes, and then click OK.

5 Be sure that the user or group is selected in the Name box.

6 In the Permissions list, click Allow next to Full Control, and then click OK.

7 Click Ok all the way out.

8 Restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store.

How to backup Individual Brick Level Backup

Please follow the instructions below to backup all individual items within your Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 / 2003 using the onine backup manager:

i. Open the online backup manager

Right click online backup manager icon available in the system tray and choose [Open]

ii. Create a backup set

a. From the Menu, Choose [Backup Set] -> [New] -> [MS Exchange Mail Level Backup Set]

b. Enter a name for your backup set

c. Select the email account(s) to backup

You can drill down to select individual items.

d. Set the backup schedule

e. Set the encryption algorithm, encryption mode and encrypting key for this backup set

(Hint: For maximum security, please select AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) Algorithm, CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) mode and use an encrypting key with more than 8 characters.)

iii. Run Backup

a. Select the backup set you want to run on the left panel and press the [Start Backup] button (►)

b. Select [Offsite Backup Server] to start backing up your files to an Offsite Backup Server and press the [OK] button

c. You should get something similar to the screen shot below.

How to restore Individual Brick Level Backup

Please follow the instructions below to restore individual emails, contacts, calendars, tasks etc. from an Offsite Backup Server back into your exchange server. Please note that individual brick level can only be restored using the online backup client.

i. Open the online backup manager

Right click online backup manager icon available in the system tray and choose [Open]

ii. Choose the [Restore] tab and select the items you want to restore

iii. Press the [Restore Files] button

iv. Press [Start]

v. Restore complete. Please logon to exchange to get the restored items.

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