Wednesday, 30 November 2011

EMC Avamar 5 and Exchange 2010 Backups

On your Exchange 2010 Server install the following clients (or later) in this order;

AvamarClient-windows-x86_64-5.0.106-28.msi
AvamarExchangeVSS-windows-x86_64-5.0.106-28.msi

Make sure that your Avamar Backup User is a member of the local Administrator account (or recommended part of the Domain Admins).

Within Avamar you should now see the following

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Check the advanced options prior to backup within the Avamar Console depending if you have a DAG etc.

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2 comments:

John said...

Thanks for the info! I noticed that you also have some Lync posts on your Blog. Did you do anything special with Avamar for your Lync system?

Culmor said...

Hi,

Just install the Avamar SQL backup agent and use that; for Lync I also run a script (via windows scheduler) to export the Lync config and database which I then backup using the Avamar Windows agent.

Have a look at;

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Backupscript-Enterprise-092597a3

http://www.onesimplescript.com/2012/05/automating-backups-of-lync-2010.html

I hope this helps.