Configuring Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) with a VMware backup that protects Exchange
This topic includes the steps to configure your NetBackup environment so that you can restore individual Exchange mailbox and public folder objects from a VMware backup.
Table: Configuring Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) with a VMware backup that protects Exchange
Step | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
Step 1 | Verify that you have a supported Exchange Server configuration and have a media server platform that supports GRT. | See the Application/Database Agent Compatibility List. See the Software Compatibility List (SCL). |
Step 2 | Determine which clients require configuration and ensure that requirements are met for the NetBackup clients. | See Exchange granular clients and non-VMware backups . See NetBackup client requirements for NetBackup for Exchange. In a cluster or replicated environment, perform the steps on each database node in the cluster. For an Exchange Database Availability Group (DAG), perform the steps on each database node in the DAG. |
Step 3 | On all granular clients, ensure that each node has an unassigned drive letter on which to mount the backup image. | |
Step 4 | On all granular clients, enable or configure NFS for your environment. | In a cluster or replicated environment, perform the steps on each database node in the cluster. For an Exchange DAG, configure the nodes that browse for backups. This configuration is not needed to capture the data during backups of the virtual machine. See About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS). |
Step 5 | On all granular clients, create an account for Exchange operations (a unique mailbox) for NetBackup. | Make sure that the account is a local administrator and has the right to replace a process level token on each server. See About configuring the account for NetBackup Exchange operations. |
Step 6 | On all granular clients, configure the Exchange credentials. | See About the Exchange credentials in the client host properties. |
Step 7 | Create a policy as follows:
| For complete details on how to configure Replication Director with VMware backups, see the NetBackup Replication Director Solutions Guide. See Configuring VMware application backups that use Replication Director. |
Step 8 | On the NetBackup server, configure the mappings for distributed application restores. | For backups in a DAG or cluster or if you use a proxy host, you must map the application hosts and component hosts in your environment. See Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed applications, clusters, or virtual machines . |
Step 9 | On the NetBackup server, review the auto-discovered mappings for the hosts in your environment. | In certain scenarios, a NetBackup host has additional host names or shares a particular name with other hosts. See Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management. |