{"id":17090,"date":"2017-02-21T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/?p=17090"},"modified":"2024-02-12T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:15:45","slug":"support-for-backup-of-exchange-databases-from-dag-in-backup-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/support-for-backup-of-exchange-databases-from-dag-in-backup-5-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Backup of Exchange Databases from DAG in MSP360 Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSP360 Backup features a number of new long-awaited improvements. Among them is support for backup of Microsoft Exchange databases from passively-configured servers in the DAG cluster. Read on to learn how to utilize the new feature in our flagship backup solution.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please note that this article refers to MSP360 Backup 5.4 released in February 2017. It's different from the latest version of the product. You might want to check out our newer guide on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/exchange-backup\/\">Exchange backup and recovery<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>A database availability group (DAG) is a set of up to 16 Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Mailbox servers that provide automatic database-level recovery from a database, server, or network failure. When a Mailbox server is added to a DAG, it works with the other servers in the DAG to provide automatic, database-level recovery from database, server, and network failures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/whitepapers\/msp-guide-to-ms-exchange-server-backup-and-recovery><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30328 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Group-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Group-8.png 825w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Group-8-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Group-8-768x235.png 768w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Group-8-624x191.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSuppose you want to back up this cluster. Our previous\u00a0implementation only displayed active database copies located on a local server.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17286 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/activeOld.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/activeOld.png 647w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/activeOld-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/activeOld-624x482.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No longer! The new manual mode enables you to manually include passive database copies located on a local server as well. Let's go ahead and explore the process\u00a0at length.<\/p>\n<h2>Setup<\/h2>\n<p>On the main Toolbar, click <strong>MS Exchange<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17259 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/clickexchange-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/clickexchange-1.png 358w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/clickexchange-1-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Follow the initial steps until you reach the database selection step.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/unnamed-1024x487.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/unnamed-1024x487.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/unnamed-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/unnamed-768x365.png 768w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/unnamed-624x296.png 624w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/unnamed.png 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here you can select a database from the list or manually add one by clicking <strong>Add<\/strong>. The newly appeared pop-up window prompts you to specify the path for <strong>Data file<\/strong>, <strong>Log file folder<\/strong>, and also\u00a0<strong>the database name<\/strong>. Click <strong>OK<\/strong>. From here on<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>out, conclude configuring the plan and execute it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured_block\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSP360 Backup features a number of new long-awaited improvements. Among them is support for backup of Microsoft Exchange databases from passively-configured servers in the DAG cluster. Read on to learn how to utilize the new feature in our flagship backup solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[877,894,882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-articles","category-msp360-backup","category-msp360-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57567,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions\/57567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}