Performing user-directed full backups (Exchange 2007 and earlier)

In NetBackup, a user-directed backup of Exchange acts as a copy backup. Copy backups are the same as full backups, except copy backups do not truncate the Exchange log files. You can change the behavior of a user backup so that it normally acts as a full backup instead of a copy backup. As with regular full backups, the logs are truncated.

Note:

This configuration is only available for streaming backups.

To perform a user-directed copy backup

To configure user-directed backups to act as full backups

  1. On the Exchange client, open Regedit.

  2. Open the following key:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Agents\Exchange
    
  3. Create a new DWORD value named Convert_USER_to_FULL.

  4. Right-click on the new value and click Modify.

  5. In the Value data box, type 1.

  6. Click OK.

  7. Repeat these steps for any other Exchange clients.