Exchange Brick-Level Mailbox Backup

IBackup Professional ‘Exchange Brick-Level Mailbox Backup’ allows you to backup individual mailboxes on the MS Exchange Server Store to your IBackup Professional account. The application backs up the contents of the selected mailbox or mailboxes or an individual email to a Personal Folder (.PST) file that can be accessed using Microsoft Outlook at any point of time.

The IBackup Professional ‘Exchange Brick-Level Mailbox Backup’ is designed to only perform backup of individual mailboxes for the selected mailbox stores and it is not a method for complete backup or recovery of Exchange database. In order to perform complete Exchange database backup for Exchange recovery you should use the ‘Exchange Server backup/restore’ feature of IBackup Professional.

Note: Please ensure that appropriate Mailbox Rights have been granted to perform the ‘Exchange Brick-Level Mailbox Backup’ of selected mailbox or mailboxes.

Backing up MS Exchange Server Mailboxes

IBackup Professional ‘Exchange Brick-Level Mailbox Backup’ wizard guides you with a simple step-by-step approach to backup individual mailboxes on the MS Exchange Server Store to your IBackup Professional account. Please follow the steps given below:

Step 1

Login to IBackup Professional. In the IBackup Professional main screen, click on the 'Exchange Server Backup' option from the main menu item, ‘Advanced Backup ’ > ‘Exchange Server’ > ‘Exchange Brick-Level Mailbox' > 'Backup’.



Step 2

Select the individual mailbox or maiboxes that you wish to backup to your IBackup Professional account from the MS Exchange Server.



Step 3

Click on the ‘Browse’ button to choose a temporary location on your local computer to store the selected MS Exchange Server mailboxes as a Personal Folder (.PST) file.

Note: Please ensure that the selected temporary location on your computer has sufficient free space to hold the contents of individual mailboxes of MS Exchange Server. You are not allowed to select the temporary location on the remote location.

Step 4

While selecting mailboxes for backups, you can customize your selection based on the following criteria.
Backup all the messages: By default, the ‘Backup all the messages’ option will be enabled. If you choose this option, the whole mailbox contents will be backed up.
Based on Date: This option allows you to select messages belonging to a specified date and time or between a particular date and time.
Based on subject and attachment: You can also select messages based on the subject or attachment.
Select individual mailbox folders: Click on this button to choose mailbox folders such as ‘Inbox’, ‘Sent Items’, ‘Deleted Items’, ‘Calendars’, ‘Tasks’, ‘Journals’ etc. that you wish to backup. Please note that only the selected folders will be processed and all others will be ignored.

Step 5

a) Click on the ‘Backup now’ button to set an immediate schedule job.
b) Click on the ‘Next’ button to schedule the backup for a future date or time with the scheduling options provided on the ‘Scheduler Wizard’.