This article describes How to Backup Granular GRT Microsoft Exchange Server with Veritas NetBackup
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Technical Director Nigel Dutt approached Edward Forwood of broker Durlacher with a proposal to start a company to develop and sell the product. They consequently acquired the rights to the product and formed kVault Software Limited in late 1999 with initial funding from Durlacher. The four years from 2000–2004 saw greatly improved sales and eventual acquisition by VERITAS Software in 2004. Veritas was subsequently acquired by Symantec in 2005 for $13.5B. However, on February 1st 2016, Symantec completed its sale of Veritas to the Carlyle group for $7.4B and Enterprise Vault again reverted to being a Veritas product.
In computing, Veritas NetBackup (called Symantec NetBackup prior to Symantec's divestiture of Veritas) is an enterprise-level heterogeneous backup and recovery suite. It provides cross-platform backup functionality to a large variety of Windows, UNIX and Linux operating systems.
Veritas NetBackup -- known as Symantec NetBackup from 2005 to 2016 -- is a backup and recovery software suite designed for enterprise users. When security giant Symantec acquired Veritas for $13.5 billion in 2005, the NetBackup product was renamed Symantec NetBackup. In 2016, when Symantec spun out its Veritas storage unit, NetBackup again became known as Veritas NetBackup.
NetBackup features a central master server which manages both media servers (containing the backup media) and clients. Core server platforms include Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, Linux and Windows.
NetBackup OpsCenter, which comes bundled with the NetBackup 7.0 distribution and replaces the NetBackup Operations Manager[1] (NOM) component used in previous versions, can manage multiple NetBackup environments. NetBackup comes with support for many hardware devices like tape drives, tape libraries, disk units. It supports, among many[quantify] other features, hot backups for major database products like Oracle; it can natively backup and restore the virtual machines of major virtualization products like VMware Infrastructure, can use Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), and has tape vaulting. NetBackup also enables LAN-free and server-free backups in SAN fabric environments.
NetBackup: #1 in Enterprise Backup Solutions Enterprise data backup and recovery optimized for the multi-cloud.
NetBackup simplifies the protection of your information driven enterprise by automating advanced technologies and standardizing operations across applications, platforms, and virtual environments. Integrated deduplication, replication, and patent-pending virtual machine protection, helps customers improve storage efficiency, infrastructure use, and recovery times.
A single console offers multi-site monitoring, analytics, and reporting which allows customers to standardize operations and risk management. Used by global companies around the world, NetBackup easily scales to protect the largest UNIX®, Windows®, and Linux® environments.
NetBackup includes the following server and client software:
The NetBackup master server manages NetBackup backups, archives, and restores. The master server is responsible for media and device selection for NetBackup.
NetBackup Media servers are the NetBackup device hosts that provide additional storage by allowing NetBackup to use the storage devices that are attached to them.
NetBackup client software that resides on the hosts that contain data to be backed up.
Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft. It runs exclusively on Windows Server operating systems.
The first version was called Exchange Server 4.0, to position it as the successor to the related Microsoft Mail 3.5. Exchange initially used the X.400 directory service but switched to Active Directory later. Until version 5.0 it came bundled with an email client called Microsoft Exchange Client. This was discontinued in favor of Microsoft Outlook.
Exchange Server primarily uses a proprietary protocol called MAPI to talk to email clients, but subsequently added support for POP3, IMAP, and EAS. The standard SMTP protocol is used to communicate to other Internet mail servers.
Exchange Server is licensed both as on-premises software and software as a service (SaaS). In the on-premises form, customers purchase client access licenses (CALs); as SaaS, Microsoft charges a monthly service fee instead.
Microsoft designed Exchange Server to give users access to the messaging platform on smartphones, tablets, desktops and web-based systems. Telephony capabilities in Exchange Server support voice messages. Exchange users collaborate through calendar and document sharing. Storage and security features in the platform let organizations archive content, perform searches and execute compliance tasks.
When a backup uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT), users can restore individual items directly from any full database backup. This type of backup can serve both kinds of recovery situations. From the same backup image you can restore entire databases. Or you can select individual folders or messages within a mailbox or public folder.
You can restore individual items using GRT from the following types of backups:
Full or user-directed backups
NetBackup lets you create a complete policy for disaster recovery, with all the various types of schedules. However, you cannot restore individual items from an incremental backup.
VMware backups that protect Exchange
Local snapshot backups
Off-host snapshot backups
Instant recovery backups, when the schedule copies the snapshot to a storage unit
Replica snapshot backups
This type of backup applies to a Database Availability Group (DAG).
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