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Transportable VSS Backup and Restore - Microsoft Exchange Writers

Transportable VSS backups of the Microsoft Exchange Writer can only be restored by Session. See Restore Methods for a description of the types of restore available in the Restore Manager.

Be aware of the following behavior as it applies to HDVSS backups:

• Exchange 2007, 2010, and 2013 writer display only if the hardware provider is installed on the agent machine.
• Exchange 2007, 2010, and 2013 writer backups support only backing up transportable snapshots. Backups of non-transportable snapshots will fail.
• Because transportable VSS backups are run as multistreaming jobs and, for the Microsoft Exchange Writer, each storage group has been backed up to a different session, to restore the entire Microsoft Exchange Writer, you must individually restore each storage group session. Each session is one storage group.