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Information for Technical Support

If you need to contact Arcserve support for assistance with Exchange Server 2003, Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010, use the following registry keys to gather the information that Customer Support will need to help resolve your issues:

Database Level Backup and Restore

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE \ComputerAssociates\CA ARCserve Backup\ ExchangeDBAgent\Parameters
Value Name: 	Debug
Value Type:	REG_DWORD
Value Data:	0(off), 1(default), 5(verbose)
Results:  	dbaexdb*.log & dbaexdb*.trc, in Exchange agent DBLOG directory

If the trace files grow too large or too many, you can use the following registry values to reduce the size and file count:

Value Name: 	MaxLogSize
Value Type:	REG_DWORD
Value Data:	size of each trace file in MB
Result:	As soon as the size is reached, a new trace file will be generated.

Value Name: 	MaxLogCount
Value Type:	REG_DWORD
Value Data:	Number of log files
Results:  	After the maximum number of log file reaches this value, the oldest log file is deleted and a new log file is created.

Note: You can change the registry values listed above using the Exchange agent configuration utility. You do not need to restart the Universal Agent service.

Document Level Backup and Restore

For Exchange Server 2003, the registry path is as follows:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCserve Backup\ExchangeDocumentAgent\Parameters

For Exchange Server 2007 and 2010, the registry path is as follows:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCserve Backup\ExchangeDocumentAgent\Parameters

Value Name: 	Debug
Value Type:	REG_DWORD
Value Data:	0(off), 1(default), 5(verbose)
Results:  	Expaadp*.log & expaadp*.trc, in Exchange agent LOG directory

Note: You can change the debug level using the Exchange agent configuration utility. You do not need to restart the Universal Agent service.

If the size of the trace files grows too large, you can create and configure the following registry values to reduce the size:

Value Name: 	MaxLogSize
Value Type:	REG_DWORD
Value Data:	size of each trace file in MB
Result:	As soon as the size is reached, a new trace file will be generated.

Value Name: 	DeleteLogFile
Value Type:	REG_DWORD
Value Data:	0, 1
Results:  	0: When a new trace file is generated, the previous trace file will NOT be deleted. 1: When a new trace file is generated, the previous trace file will be deleted.

Brick Level Restore

For brick level restore, the registry path is as follows:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\Arcserve Backup\DSAgent\CurrentVersion\agent\dbaxchg2

Value Name: 	Debug
Value Type:	REG_DWORD
Value Data:	0(off, default)-3(on,verbose)
Results:  	Dbaxchg2.log & dbaxchg2*.trc, in Exchange agent directory

Note: Restart the Arcserve Backup Agent RPC Server service.