Essential Exchange

 Hi all,

Can someone assist me on creating a VSS backup dump of the exchange databases? I am new to use Volume Shadow Copy Service API to backup exchange server databases. Some basic questions I do have now are,

1) How do I inform VSS to backup a particular mailbox database? i.e. where should I give the database name to backup it using VSS? which class, which method?
2) Is there a way to get a list of the exchange databases available in the exchange server using VSS? Any function that could return this list as a vector or map or anyother thing?
3) Does Volume Shadow Copy Service take a copy of *.edb, *.log and *.chk files literally and dump them in a destination location that we specify?

Many thanks,
Nesan Joseph R.

So...did you read the series on Exchange Backups with VSS on this blog?

If you are looking for C# or C++ code, then you should download the Exchange SDK. It contains examples of the backup API. The VSS API is included as part of the WIndows Platform SDK.

Thanks for that helpful link with valuable stuff. I have downloaded SDK and will get back to you (via this thread ofcourse!) if I have any queries.

Thanks & Regards,

Nesan Joseph R.