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I’ve had to split up our Exchange backups into 3 different policies for various reasons. In each policy, I list the names of the databases to back up. Even doing it like this, I get some occasional failures when backing them up. Is it possible to run a backup using bpbackup and specify the individual database I want to back up?

For example, if a backup fails for Exchange database XDB01, will bpbackup allow me to specify just this specific database to back up...or would it be easier to create a copy of my Exchange backup and enter the specific database into that policy? I’m leaning towards doing it with a policy, but wondered if there were alternatives.


Howard Graylin | System Administrator III | C Spire Wireless
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You would have to write a wrapper script to tweak and then untweak the include list and feed the database name as a command line argument or have a separate policy for each database that only gets ran in the event that database failed. (or write your script in a manner that runs a backup of all databases unless it is provided a database name as a command line argument. Using the -w option you could block until the job completes and react to the status code accordingly)

Why don't you just specify "Microsoft Information Store:\*" in your policy include list and then only re-run the failed client jobs? (using bpdbjobs)

-CC