Performing a Frequent Recovery Point backup operation

You can either create a Frequent Recovery Point backup or schedule Frequent Recovery Point backups.

Steps

1. In the Scope pane, select an Exchange server.
2. In the Actions pane, click Frequent Recovery Point Backup.

   If...	Then...
   You have not scheduled the backup job of Frequent Recovery Point	SnapManager does not display any job details. You can use the Create Job button to create a new job specification.
   You have scheduled the backup job of Frequent Recovery Point	SnapManager displays the job details. Use Update Job to update the job specifications.

   Note: You can disable the current job by selecting the Disable scheduled job check box.

3. Under "Selected for backup," click Select All to select all the Storage Groups or databases at one time, or click Unselect All to clear all your selections.
4. Under "Backup Frequency", specify the maximum frequency at which the recovery point backup needs to be made:
   1. In the "Every" list, select a number of minutes or hours from the list box to specify the interval between the Frequent Recovery Point backups.
   2. In the "Start at" list, select the time to run the Frequent Recovery Point backup.
5. Under "Operation options", select Run command after operation if you want to run a command or script of your choice after the backup operation completes.
6. Do one of the following:

   If you want to...	Then do this...
   Create one Frequent Recovery Point backup	Click Create Recovery Point. The Backup Status window is displayed with the list of tasks.
   Run Frequent Recovery Point backups at a specific interval	Click Create Job. A scheduled job named FRPBackup is created under Windows Scheduled Tasks.

7. When you click Create Recovery Point and the backup status is displayed, click Start Now to create one new recovery point backup.
8. In the Backup Status window, click Close when the backup operation completes.

   SnapManager displays a message with the result of the Frequent Recovery Point backup.

• Creating multiple FRP backup jobs for different Exchange instances
  You can create multiple FRP backup jobs for different Exchange instances in a Microsoft Active/Active cluster configuration using SnapManager. Such a configuration can have two or more active Exchange instances on a single node, so two or more FRP backup jobs are required, one for each instance of Exchange.