I have been trying to get this to work for days now and I don't seem to be making any progress. I have tried all kinds of options in both the dsm.opt and tdpexc.cfg files and I get various messages. The documentation in the TDP for Exchange manual on doing replica backups is not very detailed at all. Our environment looks like this. We have two windows 2008 exchange 2007 servers setup for CCR replication to each other. I am trying to do replica backups on the offline cluster member so it doesn't affect performance on the live cluster member. The TSM server is 6.3.4.300 running on RHEL5 linux. I thought I had it working but nothing was actually backed up. The TSM session was established on the TSM server but no data was actually sent. The sessions appeared to be hung and seemed to eventually timeout. The other message I was receiving on the offline exchange cluster member was Updating mailbox history on TSM Server... Mailbox history has been updated successfully.
Querying Exchange Server to gather component information, please wait... ACN5241E The Microsoft Exchange Information Store is currently not running. but from what I was told by our exchange experts is that that service only runs on the active cluster member and not on the offline member. Below are my sanitized dsm.opt and tdpexc.cfg dsm.opt NODename exchange deduplication no CLUSTERnode yes COMPRESSIon Off COMPRESSalways On PASSWORDAccess Generate resourceutilization 5 COMMMethod TCPip TCPPort 1500 TCPServeraddress tsmserver TCPWindowsize 128 TCPBuffSize 64 diskbuffsize 32 SCHEDMODE Prompted SCHEDLOGRetention 14,d HTTPport 1581 tdpexc.cfg BUFFers 4 BUFFERSIze 8192 clusternode yes compression off compressalways on LOGFile tdpexc.log LOGPrune 60 MOUNTWait Yes TEMPLOGRestorepath P:\TempRestoreLoc LASTPRUNEDate 10/31/2014 06:55:09 BACKUPMETHod LEGACY * BACKUPMETHod vss RETRies 0 LANGuage ENU BACKUPDESTination TSM LOCALDSMAgentnode exchangeofflineclustertsmnodename REMOTEDSMAgentnode exchange TEMPDBRestorepath P:\TempRestoreLoc CLIENTACcessserver Could someone who actually has this working send me their sanitized dsm.opt.tdpexc.cfg and the actual command used to do a replica backup from the offline cluster member?
