Configuration requirements and recommendations for the Exchange Server when performing snapshot operations
Review the following requirements and recommendations before you perform snapshot backups:
Complete the necessary installation and configuration for snapshot backups.
Mount databases before you perform a backup.
The volume(s) that contains the Exchange databases should be dedicated to Exchange only. Other types of databases (for example, SQL Server) should not reside on the volume(s). Only Exchange objects are included in a snapshot backup.
Transaction logs or Exchange system files should not reside on the same volume as the Exchange database files (
edbandstm).For off-host backups using Storage Foundations for Windows (SFW), SFW deports and imports at the disk level. The volumes that you back up must constitute whole disks.