Exchange Granular Recovery
Microsoft Exchange has become one of today’s most critical business applications and losing access to this data for even a short period of time can be damaging to any business. The ability to quickly recover an Exchange server in the event of failure and be able to easily recover individual mail boxes or messages should be cornerstones of any backup and DR solution.
Exchange Granular Recovery from Idealstor is a plug in for MS Outlook 2003/2007 that allows you to easily recover individual mailboxes or messages from Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 without having to restore the entire Exchange database. When combined with Paragon Drive Backup Server's bare metal system restore and migration capabilities, this becomes a powerful tool that can save your business both time and money.
Why Use This Plug In?
There are other solutions on the market that are designed to backup and recover Exchange at the mailbox/message level. These solutions are both costly and inefficient when compared to the Idealstor method.
Traditional Exchange backup solutions require the purchase of a separate costly Exchange agent that enables you to perform a brick level backup. Once a brick level backup has been run, administrators then have the ability to recover at a granular level.
Here are a few of the short comings of brick level backups:
Increased Backup Window:
These brick level backup solutions use MAPI to connect to each individual mailbox and public folder while the backup is being run to capture the mailbox/message level data. This greatly increases the amount of time needed to backup Exchange and is far more inefficient than simply backing up the entire Exchange database and message store.
Wasted Backup Storage:
Brick level backup solutions address the need to backup an Exchange database and to be able to recover individual emails or mailboxes. However, brick level backup does nothing to address server recovery in the event of a disaster. Because of this, an additional backup or system image will be required to have the data on hand to perform a system restore when a server is lost. This takes up considerable time but also disk space.
Exchange Granular Recovery from Idealstor is designed to solve the short comings of brick level backups and give you the power to quickly recover individual emails or an entire Exchange server in the event of disaster.
Benefits of the Idealstor Method
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Quickly backup the entire database yet restore at the individual level
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Extract only the data you need
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Recover individual Exchange messages or mailboxes quickly
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Export data to PST files.
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Eliminates the need for a recovery environment
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Keep your current production and backup processes intact
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Migrate mail from previous versions of Exchange to Exchange 2010
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Archive old Mailboxes.
System Requirements
| MS Exchange Databases |
MS Outlook |
Operating System |
Edition |
| Exchange 2003 |
Outlook 2003/2007 |
Windows 2003/R2, Windows XP SP2/SP3 |
Standard/Enterprise, x86 Professional, x86 |
| Exchange 2007/2010 |
Outlook 2003/2007 |
Windows 2008/R2, Windows 2003/R2, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2/SP3 |
Standard/Enterprise, x64Standard/Enterprise, x64 Ultimate/Business, x64 Ultimate/Business, x64 Professional, x64 |