I couldn't resist commenting on this subject, again! So here it goes....
A few months ago we were getting abit annoyed with TSM and called in some
vendors to looks at their backup products. One was Veritas, who we all know,
another was CommVault which was spun off from Lucent.
CommVault apparently is in bed with Microsoft, and living in sin I suppose.
Their strategy is windows 2000 centric and they make some bold claims about
restoring individual Exchange mailboxes.
I strongly suspect that they have some inside advantage with Microsoft and
Tivoli is being kept at bay. Check out their claims at:
http://galaxy.commvault.com/products_sub.asp?id=63
Now, with that said I must say that I did not like the CommVault database
schema and their DR solution and Tivoli wised up and fixed the TSM issues we
had.
I strongly suspect that Microsoft has more than a "partnership" with
CommVault. But I hate Microsoft anyway so judge for yourself.
Good Luck -
CR
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-----Original Message-----
From: Del Hoobler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 1:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Exchange 2000 TDP-follow-up
Mehdi,
The procedure for restoring a mailbox within Exchange 2000 will be
to restore the database within the Storage Group that contains the
mailbox.
If you are asking about brick-level backup and restore. Then no.
In fact, a Microsoft Exchange project manager was asked about
when the Microsoft APIs would allow this in the future...
...and his answer was there were no plans to add this to the
backup and restore API.
Thanks,
Del
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IBM Corporation
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"Amini, Mehdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on
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Will Exchange 2000 TDP allow for individual Mailbox restore ?
Mehdi Amini
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