Hello, We just implemented a two node active/passive Exchange 2003 Cluster. Soon, we'll be moving mailboxes off of our 5.5 server. We have Veritas Backup Exec version 10 in house. Has anyone set up a backup solution with BackUp Exec 10 on a cluster? What about in conjunction with Windows Volume Shadow Services (VSS). I'm looking for recommendations on a backup design. The cluster is going to a backend EMC Claarion SAN. Thanks
I use Tivoli to backup our clustered Exchange servers, that also reside on an EMC SAN...with Tivoli, the only issue is installing the software and the scheduling agent so that you can create a "resource" for the scheduler...that way, if the cluster should fail over, your backups will still fire off...I'm sure Veritas has instructions for the same type of set up...the main thing with Exchange 2003 backups it to backup the entire storage group so that your committed transaction log files will be purged properly...I don't us the VSS, though...have heard that no one has quite perfected that option for Exchange backups... "msadexchman" wrote in message news:O9N0svYYFHA.2380@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > Hello, > > We just implemented a two node active/passive Exchange 2003 Cluster. Soon, > we'll be moving mailboxes off of our 5.5 server. We have Veritas Backup > Exec version 10 in house. Has anyone set up a backup solution with BackUp > Exec 10 on a cluster? What about in conjunction with Windows Volume Shadow > Services (VSS). > > I'm looking for recommendations on a backup design. The cluster is going to > a backend EMC Claarion SAN. > > Thanks > >
Both work just fine. Veritas has some good reading on there website on the topics. Cheers, Rod MVP - Windows Server - Clustering http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering Website http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog "msadexchman" wrote in message news:O9N0svYYFHA.2380@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > Hello, > > We just implemented a two node active/passive Exchange 2003 Cluster. > Soon, we'll be moving mailboxes off of our 5.5 server. We have Veritas > Backup Exec version 10 in house. Has anyone set up a backup solution with > BackUp Exec 10 on a cluster? What about in conjunction with Windows > Volume Shadow Services (VSS). > > I'm looking for recommendations on a backup design. The cluster is going > to a backend EMC Claarion SAN. > > Thanks >
