About the VSS Exchange Snapshot Scheduler Wizard

You can use the VSS Exchange Snapshot Scheduler Wizard to add a snapshot schedule for a selected database. This wizard uses the same scheduling process as the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard.

Unlike the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard, the VSS Exchange Snapshot Scheduler Wizard does not prepare the snapshot mirror. To prepare the snapshot mirror you must use the VEA Prepare command (or the vxsnap command line utility) before running the VSS Exchange Snapshot Scheduler Wizard. Also, you can only schedule a snapshot for one database at a time.

You would typically use this wizard to add a schedule to the initial configuration that was created with the Quick Recovery wizard. For example, you configured a daily snapshot for Quick Recovery use and now want to add a weekly snapshot on a different disk for backup use.

If replication is enabled for an Exchange 2010 database in a DAG, you can also use the VSS Snapshot Scheduler Wizard to schedule snapshots of the passive copy of an Exchange 2010 database.

Note:

Adding a snapshot schedule using the VSS Exchange Snapshot Scheduler does not update the template settings created with the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard. If you want to keep the template settings up to date, you should instead run the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard to modify the schedule.