Create Backup Set

Overview

Brick-Level backup for Microsoft Exchange Server is not designed to fully protect an Exchange Server, but to facilitate easy backup and fast restore of individual emails, contacts or calendars, etc.

A Brick-Level restore cannot fully recover the Information Store after a disaster.

Important:
If used, a Brick-Level Backup must be utilized in conjunction with full Information Store Backup, in order to fully protect the Exchange Server.



Backup Requirements

Please ensure that following requirements are met by the MS Exchange server:

  1. CloudBacko™ is installed on the MS Exchange node with Mailbox role.
  2. Microsoft Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) is installed on the MS Exchange server.
  3. The operating system account to be running the Brick-Level backup (e.g. administrator) must have a mailbox and is not hidden from the Global Mailbox List.

    Scheduled backup is performed using the operating system account configured in the "User Authentication for Windows" field.

    If such setting is not configured, the scheduled backup would precede with the default Local System account (default log on account for CloudBacko Pro scheduler).

    In this case, the backup will most likely fail with permission denied error.



Granting Privileges:

Brick-Level backup requires "Full Mailbox Access" permission for the user running CloudBacko™.

Please refer to the following instruction for granting permission to the operating system account to be running the Brick-Level backup:

For one specific mailbox

Use the following procedure to grant access to Exchange 2003 / 2007 mailbox:

  1. Start the "Active Directory Users and Computers" applet.
  2. On the "View" menu, ensure that the "Advanced Features" option is selected.
  3. Right click the user whose mailbox you want to give permissions to and choose "Properties".
  4. On the "Exchange" Advanced tab, click "Mailbox Rights".
  5. Notice that the Domain Admins and Enterprise Admins have both been given Deny access to Full Mailbox access.
  6. Click "Add", click the user or group who you want to have access to this mailbox, and then click [OK].
  7. Ensure that the user or group is selected in the Name box.
  8. In the "Permissions" list, click "Allow" next to "Full Mailbox Access", and then click [OK].
  9. Click [OK] all the way out.
  10. Restart the "Microsoft Exchange Information Store" service.
For mailboxes located within a specific mailbox store

Use the following procedure to grant access to Exchange 2003/2007 mailbox found on a specific mail store:

  1. Start the [Exchange System Manager] applet.
  2. Navigate to the server object within the appropriate Administrative Group.
  3. Expand the server object and find the required mailbox store within the appropriate Storage Group. Right click it and choose [Properties].
  4. In the [Properties] window, go to the [Security] tab.
  5. Click [Add], click the user or group who you want to have access to the mailboxes, and then click [OK].
  6. Be sure that the user or group is selected in the Name box.
  7. In the [Permission] list, check [Allow] next to [Full Control], and then click [OK].
  8. Click [Apply] and [OK].
  9. Restart the [Microsoft Exchange Information Store] service.
For mailboxes located within a specific server

For Exchange 2003, please refer to the following instructions:

  1. Add an operating system account to the Add an operating system account to the Exchange 2003 server.

    This account must be a member of the following groups in the Active Directory:


  2. Right click [Exchange System Manager] > [Domain Name] > [Server] > [Exchange Server Name], select [Properties].
  3. Choose the [Security] tab.
  4. Add the newly created user to the list, and then check the [Full Control] checkbox for this user.
  5. Click [OK] all the way out.
  6. Reboot the server or restart the [Microsoft Exchange Information Store] service, wait for at least 15 minutes for the changes to be applied to the Exchange server.

For Exchange 2007, please refer to the following instructions:

  1. Add an operating system account to the Add an operating system account to the Exchange 2007 server.

    This account must be a member of the following groups:


  2. Enter the following command in Exchange Management Shell:

    Get-MailboxServer | Add-ADPermission -User "%USER%" -AccessRights GenericAll -ExtendedRights ms-exch-store-admin,receive-as,send-as -InheritanceType All

    Example, to grant the permission for local account "system"

    Get-MailboxServer | Add-ADPermission -User "system" -AccessRights GenericAll -ExtendedRights ms-exch-store-admin,receive-as,send-as -InheritanceType All

    To show added permission for an AD account

    Get-MailboxServer | Get-ADPermission -User "%USER%"

    Example, to show added permission for local account "system"

    Get-MailboxServer | Get-ADPermission -User "system"

    To remove permission from an AD account

    Get-MailboxServer | Remove-ADPermission -User "%USER%" -AccessRights GenericAll -ExtendedRights ms-exch-store-admin,receive-as,send-as -InheritanceType All

    Example, to remove permission from local account "system"

    Get-MailboxServer | Get-ADPermission -User "system"

    To remove permission from an AD account

    Get-MailboxServer | Remove-ADPermission -User "%USER%" -AccessRights GenericAll -ExtendedRights ms-exch-store-admin,receive-as,send-as -InheritanceType All

    Example, to remove permission from local account "system"

    Get-MailboxServer | Remove-ADPermission -User "minimal" -AccessRights GenericAll -ExtendedRights ms-exch-store-admin,receive-as,send-as -InheritanceType All

For Exchange Server 2010, please refer to the following instructions:

  1. Add an operating system account to the Exchange 2010 server.

    This account must be a member of the following groups:


  2. Ensure that Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB981401) is installed.

    Please refer to http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displayLang=en&id=415 .

  3. Enter the following command in Exchange Management Shell:

    Get-Mailbox | Add-MailboxPermission -User "%USER%" -AccessRights FullAccess

    Example:

    Get-Mailbox | Add-MailboxPermission -User "system" -AccessRights FullAccess

    Other useful commands:

    Remove permission from an AD account

    Get-Mailbox | Remove-MailboxPermission -User "%USER%" -AccessRights FullAccess

    Example:

    Get-Mailbox | Remove-MailboxPermission -User "system" -AccessRights FullAccess

    To view the mailbox permission of a user

    Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxPermission -User "%USER%"

    Example:

    Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxPermission -User "SYSTEM"


Set the name of the backup set

Name This is the name of the backup set. You can create a meaningful name for it.
Backup Type Enter the correct backup type from the drop down box.
Version Version of the Exchange server.

To create a backup set name:

  1. Type in a meaningful backup set name.
  2. Enter correct backup type, eg: MS Exchange Mail Level Backup.
  3. Enter the version of Exchange server.
  4. Click [Next] button to continue.
  5. Note: Click [Next] button again to start the verifying process