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Backup of Exchange Archive type mailboxes

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Exchange has a feature called Archive mailboxes which creates a secondary mailbox in the information store for a user to archive mail to.

I cannot see how to back these archive mailboxes up with Acronis. They don't appear in the list of mailboxes when backing up or restoring. Any clues?

Exchange 2010 SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 build 37613

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Hello Paul,

Thank you for posting this question in our forum. I am happy to assist you. 

The Acronis Agent for MS Exchange can backup the entire information store, or mailboxes only. See: What data items can be backed up and what backup types are used?

The Acronis Agent do not create a new mailbox inside an existing information store during backup. So, the default backup is the information store, as you can recover all types of content or the entire information store.

A mailbox backup makes sense in order to protect an important mailbox or public folder.

If you need additional assistance, please contact support. You will find all available support options in our Customer handbook.

If there is anything else we can do for you, please let me know.

Thank you.