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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 Microsoft Exchange Server User Guide

Using the backup discovery tool for PowerProtect Data Manager management of existing backups

To enable the PowerProtect Data Manager management of existing backups after you have updated from a previous version of Microsoft application agent or onboarded the current version, you must run the backup discovery tool, AgentBackupDiscovery.exe. Existing backups are Microsoft application agent backups that you performed before integrating the Microsoft application agent with the PowerProtect Data Manager software.

At the end of an update of the Microsoft application agent with the installer, the wizard displays a message about running the AgentBackupDiscovery.exe tool to discover existing backups and manage them in PowerProtect Data Manager software.

CAUTION

Onboarding of Microsoft Exchange Server backup copies to PowerProtect Data Manager is supported only from backups performed with Microsoft application agent 4.7 and later.

Retention lock is not supported for discovered existing backups in PowerProtect Data Manager.

You cannot use the backup discovery tool to discover existing DD Boost-over-FC backups.

If you delete a Microsoft Exchange Server database before onboarding but the database backup copies exist on the DD system, then after onboarding, PowerProtect Data Manager will not manage those backup copies.

After you run the backup discovery tool, you can continue to use the existing backup scripts to perform the Microsoft application agent backups. Ensure that all the databases backed up with a particular script are added to a single protection policy.

To discover the existing backups by using the backup discovery tool, perform the following steps.

  1. Ensure that you have added in PowerProtect Data Manager the DD that was used for the existing backups prior to the PowerProtect Data Manager integration. Ensure that you have discovered the storage unit that was used for the backups.
  2. In the Microsoft application agent installation directory, C:\Program Files\DPSAPPS\MSAPPAGENT\bin, run AgentBackupDiscovery.exe as the administrator.

    The Discovery of existing backups dialog box appears.

    NOTE If the program does not start but displays the following message, an ongoing backup discovery process is running, as invoked by the PowerProtect Data Manager:
    Backup discovery is in progress. Please wait for it to complete.

    When the discovery process is complete, you can run the backup discovery tool.

  3. In the DD system list in the dialog box, select the appropriate DD IP address or hostname, storage unit, and username for the existing backups that you want the PowerProtect Data Manager software to discover.

    NOTE Select only one storage unit at a time. After discovery is complete for the storage unit, you can run the backup discovery tool again to discover the backups of another storage unit.
  4. In the Client hostname field, you can change the client hostname from the default local hostname as needed.

    To enable the backup discovery when the host is part of a DAG, specify the Windows cluster name.

  5. In the Backup discovery time period field, select the number of months for the time period, as the time in the past when the backups were performed. You can select 1 month, 2 months, or 3 months for the time period.
  6. In the Application field, select Exchange as the application.
  7. After you have specified the required field values, click Generate.

    When the PowerProtect Data Manager software completes the generation of the backup metadata or breadcrumbs, the following message appears in the dialog box. Depending on the number of old backups, the generation of breadcrumbs can take some time:

    Breadcrumbs generated successfully.

The retention time for the discovered backup will be same as the expiration time set when the backup was taken.


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