Backup&Restore Exchange 2010 mailbox database or mailbox item using ARCserve R16 #msexchange #arcserve

In my ultimate Journey discovering how to backup and restore Exchange 2010 by every single application on our universe, I blog today about how to do that using CA’s ARCserve r16 SP1.

We will continue using my single Exchange server hen installing ARCserver r16 SP1 and then discovering how to make a backup job to backup Exchange and Restore from our backup.

Installing ARCserve r16 SP1:

There is nothing genius about installing the ARCserve, you possible want to plan ahead for the following:

SQL Database location.

Configuring Windows authentication instead of the ARCserve authentication.

If you will configure windows authentication later, you need to remember the password you used for the default admin account “caroot” because you will use it to login.

other than that, the installation itself is no brainer, next, next and ok

Configuring ARCserve r16 Devices:

Once you are finished installing and opening the ARCserve console “Manage”, you will be prompt with a very nice tutorial that walks you through the basic configuration of your ARCserve.

In this step we will configure “Disk device” that we will use for our backup to disk, so from Devices choose launch device configuration:

In the Login Server screen, enter your credentials to login to the server:

In the Login Server  choose your login server:

In the Device Configuration screen, choose Windows File System Devices to configure a backup folder (the de-duplication device is a folder that could configured to store multiple backups, the ARCserve then divide the backup to small chunks that is compared and de-duplicated using the proprietary ARCserve algorithm) then click add:

and if you somehow missed the wizard, you can do the same using the device wizard from the administration menu:

Once the Device is configured, we can deploy the Agent and start protecting our Exchange server, you can do that from the administration, and then go to Agent Deployment :

Note: In Order to backup the Exchange server using ARCserve you must installing MAPI CDO, this is a must because unlike Symantec which uses EWS to restore emails, ARCserve using MAPI CDO to backup and restore individual email, also note that MAPI CDO must be installed before installing the ARCserve if you don’t you will get the following error message:

“The request is denied by the agent. The requested agent is not installed.”

When you deploy the agents for the first time, you must specify the ARCserve source to copy the agents from it, once copied you won’t need to do that again and you will be able to proceed with the deployment:

Once copied, you will proceed with the agent deployment, so specify the Login Server:

In the agent installation option and normally you will get the automatic, you might want to choose custom to fine tune the installation options:

In the agent select the agents that needs to be deployed:

In the host selection, you have a nice option here to discover the Exchange servers and deploy the agent to them automatically:

to discover the Exchange infrastructure, Just specify you Domain Controller and credentials and the ARCserve will discover the Exchange server for you, nice!!!:

Backup Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database and Mailboxes using ARCserve:

To Create a backup job, it is so easy, from the Protection & Recovery menu choose Backup:

From the Job Setup Menu select your Job Setup Type:

In the Source, select the Mailbox Database, if you want to recover specific mailboxes or mailox items you must configure the Document Level Type backup, unlike Symantec which uses 1 type of backups to either restore Mailbox Database or Mailbox or Mailbox item, ARCserve uses 2 types of backup (mailbox database backup for mailbox level and Mailbox Document level for Mailboxes and Mailbox items):

In the Schedule, select your scheduling:

In the Destination, select your destination, in my case I will use the folder I already configured previously:

Once all set, click the Submit button to submit the job for run.

Restore the Exchange Mailbox Database or Mailbox items from the ARCserve Backup:

Now you can restore either the Mailbox Database or the Mailbox items, you can go to the Restore section, explore the Exchange infrastructure and either select the Mailbox Database or the Mailbox Items:

Conclusion:

In this Article we have explored the basic ARCserve configuration and how to backup and restore Exchange 2010 Mailbox and Mailboxes using ARCserve. it was easy and sweet although I don’t understand why in ARCserve I have to create 2 jobs and duplicates to backup Mailbox Database and Mailboxes (Document level).

So what is the next product, I don’t know I will be waiting for your suggestions , so let me know so I can blog it.