Flush Exchange transaction logs with Arcserve Brightstor v11.1?
Hi there,
I'm on a client site, they use Arcserve Brightstor for their corporate backups. I'm used to BackupExec so everything is taking me a long time to find. My question is: where in the Arcserve client do you configure the server's behaviour re. Exchange transaction logs? In Backupexec you can decide whether you want to flush the logs on successful backup, or leave them, etc. I assume the same option is available in Brightstor but try as I might, I can't find it anywhere.
Any help gratefully appreciated!
George
I'm on a client site, they use Arcserve Brightstor for their corporate backups. I'm used to BackupExec so everything is taking me a long time to find. My question is: where in the Arcserve client do you configure the server's behaviour re. Exchange transaction logs? In Backupexec you can decide whether you want to flush the logs on successful backup, or leave them, etc. I assume the same option is available in Brightstor but try as I might, I can't find it anywhere.
Any help gratefully appreciated!
George
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Hi ded9, thanks for your post.
Doesn't really answer the question though.... Does this mean that Arcserve *should* be flushing the logs, and isn't? Sounds like the person in that particular thread solved the problem by abandoning Arcserve and installing backupexec! Tempting but I don't think the cust will go for it.....
Doesn't really answer the question though.... Does this mean that Arcserve *should* be flushing the logs, and isn't? Sounds like the person in that particular thread solved the problem by abandoning Arcserve and installing backupexec! Tempting but I don't think the cust will go for it.....
http://supportconnect.ca.com/sc/kb/kbsearchresults.jsp?siteSearch=W3501&keywordType=1
Check this " Arserve support site'
Check this " Arserve support site'
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Can't find anything on there about Exchange transaction logs, although I did see something about SQL tranx logs, so I'll see if roughly the same is true for both. Thanks for the link.
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At the moment they're only doing brick level backups, I was most unimpressed to find. I am going to enable a full IS backup (also there's SRS backup, what does that do?) as soon as we've replaced the SCSI card to the tape drive to speed up the backup as they take forever at the moment and couldn't handle the extra data.
Are you saying, then, that when I enable the full IS backup that it'll flush the logs automatically?
Are you saying, then, that when I enable the full IS backup that it'll flush the logs automatically?
It should flush the logs then, but if i'm not mistaken only when you do a full backup and not when doing differentials. This makes it easier to restore from the logs if something breaks as you don't need 100 tapes...
You have to back up the entire IS to get it to flush the logs. What version are you running?
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It's v11.1. I'm installing new SCSI cards in the backup servers to get the thing running a bit faster (currently there's only one backup server and it's got a 40MB/sec card in it, going to split the job between 2 tape devices and 2 servers each with 320MB/sec cards) and then I'll enable the IS backup to solve the transaction log problem.
Check this case study might help