About configuring a backup policy for Exchange Server
Note:
To configure a backup policy for full VMware backups that protect Exchange Server, you follow a different procedure. Incremental backups must be performed with an MS-Exchange-Server policy.
See About protecting Exchange Server data with VMware backups.
A backup policy for a database defines the backup criteria for a specific group of one or more clients.
These criteria include the following:
Storage unit and media to use
Policy attributes
Backup schedules
Clients to be backed up
Items (database objects) to be backed up
To back up a database environment, define at least one MS-Exchange-Server policy with the appropriate schedules. A configuration can have a single policy that includes all clients, or there can be many policies, some of which include only one client.
Most requirements for database policies are the same as for file system backups. In addition to the policy attributes for this database agent, other attributes are available that you should consider.