Exchange System Manager in a SnapManager environment

Exchange System Manager (ESM) is an Exchange Server 2003 component that includes a timestamp that tells you the last time that a full backup of a database took place.

The timestamp is displayed on the database Properties page. For an Exchange Server 2003 database, ESM 2003 displays a date and timestamp, and whether you made the backup with SnapManager using VSS Snapshot copy or with a streaming method such as Windows NTBackup.

• Displaying the time of the last full backup
  To display the time of the last full backup of a database, use the SnapManager Restore window rather than Exchange System Manager.
• Exchange page zeroing and deleted item retention
  Because SnapManager relies on the Snapshot technology to create a backup, SnapManager does not read every page of data. Hence, the page zeroing and deleted item retention features are not triggered when you use only SnapManager to perform backups.