This module utilises the application program interfaces (APIs) provided by e-mail application vendors to perform online "hot" backups without shutting down the e-mail server and improve data-restore performance. As a result, it can help protect the growing amount of new and changing data that should be securely backed-up to help maintain 24x365 application availability.
For Lotus Domino databases, this module exploits the "transaction logging" feature of Domino, enabling the capture of just the database changes for logged databases. Thus, full database backups are not required as frequently as in previous Domino releases.
For Microsoft Exchange, Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail supports Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. It uses the backup APIs provided by Microsoft to create a copy of the Exchange server storage group databases along with the associated transaction logs. The module can produce the different types of backups specified by Microsoft backup APIs: Full Backups, Incremental Backups, Differential Backups, Copy Backups and Database Copy Backups.
Whether used with Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino, Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail allows the continued 24x365 operation of e-mail servers while performing data backups and restores.
Data Protection for Lotus Domino is a successor to Data Protection for Lotus Notes and takes advantage of significant changes introduced in the Lotus Notes R5 server architecture. These include transaction logging for interactions with Notes databases as well as a web-based remote graphical user interface and application program interface (API) for on-line backup and recovery of Notes Databases.
Data Protection for Lotus Domino helps protect and manage Lotus Domino Release 5.x and Release 6.x Server data by making it easy to:
Data Protection for Lotus Domino provides two types of database backup, incremental and selective, and a log archive function. Incremental backup provides a conditional backup function that creates a full online backup of Domino databases, when necessary. The specific conditions that determine when a new backup is necessary vary depending on whether the database is logged or not. Selective backup unconditionally backs up the specified databases, unless they are excluded from backup through exclude statements. When archival logging is in effect, changes to logged databases can be captured in between full backups, by archiving the transaction log.
Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server provides complete integration with Microsoft Exchange APIs by offering: