Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide

About excluding Exchange items from backups

If you do not want to back up certain databases or storage groups, you can create an exclude list. When NetBackup runs a NetBackup for Exchange backup policy, NetBackup ignores the items that appear in the exclude list.

For more information on how to create an exclude list by using the NetBackup Administration Console, see one of the following:

NetBackup excludes certain files and directories by default. These default exclusions always appear in the Administration Console's exclude list. The default exclusions are as follows:

For Exchange 2010 or later, you can exclude specific databases from a backup, both for the databases that exist in a DAG or on a standalone Exchange server. You can specify the exclude list entry under All Policies or under a specific policy or schedule.

For Exchange 2007 you must specify the storage group name in the exclude list. Entering a database is not valid because Exchange requires that VSS backups must contain the entire storage group (for log truncation purposes). The exclude list entry can be specified under All Policies or under a specific policy or schedule.

Table: Example Exchange 2010 or later entries in an exclude list provides an example of an Exchange 2010 or later entry that you can add to an exclude list.

Table: Example Exchange 2007 entries in an exclude list provides an example of an Exchange 2007 entry that you can add to an exclude list.