Fast and Flexible High Performance SinglePass VSS Technology

Exchange administrators are looking for a better way to Backup and Recover the Microsoft Exchange messaging data that their company depends on. To meet this demand Lucid8 developed "Exchange Protection Manager" (EPM) a high performance, cost-effective and easy to use VSS SinglePass™ “Backup” and "Granular Recovery” product for Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2007 or 2003.

Other solutions require two backups (Database & Mailbox/Brick Level) or special "Granular Recovery Technology-Enabled (GRT) Backups" in order to provide database, mailbox and item-level recovery, creating unnecessary complexity, overhead, longer backup windows and increased storage requirements.

Lucid8's Exchange Protection Manager has revolutionized Exchange data protection by providing granular recovery of mailboxes, folders or any individual items in seconds direct from a SinglePass™ (Database only) backup. We achieved this by utilizing Microsoft Exchange VSS backup technology along with Lucid8's DigiScope EDB-API enabling EPM to open Exchange Database files (EDB) and then granularly restore data from any EPM Recovery Point.

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Simple to Install and Operate High Performance VSS Backups Flexible backup retention policies SinglePass™ Backups with Granular Recovery Granular recovery of Databases, Mailboxes, Folders, Messages, Calendar Appointments, Notes, Tasks and other Messaging Items (without “brick-level” backups) Supports Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2007, & 2003 Pricing starts at $699 per Exchange Server

Easy and straight forward Exchange Data Protection

EPM was purpose-built to protect your invaluable Exchange messaging data from possible loss or corruption.

The protection process involves a few simple steps to create Scheduled Full Backup Recovery Points along with Incremental Recovery Points of up to every 15 minutes ensuring Exchange data and user productivity are continuously protected.

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STEP 1:  Select the Stores or Groups to protect
STEP 2:  Select Protection and Retention Settings How often to you want to Protect your Exchange Data? How long do you want to keep the data readily available for recovery actions?
STEP 3:  Assign Storage to Protection Jobs Select one or more of Stores/Groups. Assign to the appropriate Storage devices which can be a Local, Domain, Enterprise Share located on a Windows based server.
STEP 4:  Submit & Monitor the Protection Jobs The EPM Monitor displays the status of your protected Stores/Groups along with current activity and pending schedules.

Emergency/Disaster Database Recovery

Store Level Recovery is for emergency recovery of an entire Exchange Database/Information Store. This may be required because of a hardware failure, virus outbreak or other disaster. Regardless of the reason, EPM makes the recovery process a breeze.

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STEP 1:  Select the Stores to Recover NOTE: To prevent accidental overwrites, ONLY Offline Stores may be selected for recovery.
STEP 2:   Select the desired Recovery Point
STEP 3:  Re-enable Store/Group Protection After the Store Level Recovery has completed, the affected stores/groups require a Full Backup. Choose to re-enable protection immediately after the recovery is completed or schedule for a later time.
STEP 4:  Submit and Monitor the Recovery The status icon for the stores/databases being recovered will remain red in color until the restoration process is complete. Upon completion the status icon changes to a yellow shield indicating a Full Backup must take place to re-enable protection. When a Full Backup has completed the status icon changes to a green shield indicating the protected is enabled.

Fast & Pain Free Exchange Mailbox Level Recovery

Historically, recovering an Exchange mailbox has been one of the most time-intensive and aggravating tasks administrators have had to handle. EPM changes all that by eliminating all the extra steps and providing Mailbox recovery directly from any EPM Recovery Point while allowing users to stay connected, uninterrupted and productive during the restoration process.

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STEP 1:  Select Mailboxes for Recovery NOTE: You may recover one or more mailboxes.
STEP 2:   Select the desired Recovery Point
STEP 3:  Alternate Mailbox or Store If the selected user no longer exists on the production server you will be allowed to select an alternate target user/mailbox. If the selected original mailbox user or the selected alternate user does not have a mailbox on the server, you will be allowed to designate the mail store to create and restore the mailbox data.
STEP 4:  Review and Set Recovery Rules Select to recover ALL items, IGNORE Hard Deleted items or ONLY recover Hard Deleted items. Select to Restore or Skip restoration of an item if it already exists. You may also choose to restore the mailbox system properties.
STEP 5:  Submit and Monitor the Recovery Users to stay connected, uninterrupted and productive during restoration.

Fast & Pain Free Exchange Item Level Recovery

Historically, recovering Individual Messages, Calendar Appointments, Notes, Tasks or other Exchange messaging items has been one of the most time-intensive and aggravating tasks administrators have had to handle. EPM changes all that by eliminating all the extra steps and providing Item Level recovery directly from any EPM Recovery Point while allowing users to stay connected, uninterrupted and productive during the restoration process.

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STEP 1:  Select Mailbox for Item Recovery
STEP 2:   Select the desired Recovery Point
STEP 3:  Alternate Mailbox or Store If the selected user no longer exists on the production server you will be allowed to select an alternate target user/mailbox. If the selected original mailbox user or the selected alternate user does not have a mailbox on the server, you will be allowed to designate the mail store to create and restore the mailbox data.
STEP 4:  Choose the Items to Restore Select entire folders or individual items for restoration.
STEP 5:  Submit and Monitor the Recovery Users to stay connected, uninterrupted and productive during restoration.

EPM simplified and cut our Exchange Backup and Recovery times in half:

"From setup to restoration, Lucid8’s EPM has simplified Exchange backup, and even cut our Backup and Recovery times in half! We really appreciate the auto-updating, auto-licensing, and the network utilization GUI even brought an Exchange throughput problem to our attention which put us on the path to resolution. Add that to the fact that Lucid8 has the best support staff I've encountered in more than 10 years in IT, and we’re obviously really impressed."

EPM provides a clean, intuitive dashboard along with extremely fast Backup and Recoveries:

“We had specific suggestions for improving the way Lucid8 helps our company run backups, and they absolutely listened to our feedback. Our old process is now replaced with faster, smaller backups that can be easily monitored as they run, and EPM even provides a clean and intuitive dashboard for added Exchange backup clarity.”

EPM is truly a ‘set it and forget it’ Exchange Protection Solution:

“I have trusted Lucid8 to protect my Exchange Servers over the years, and the new EPM is truly a ‘set it and forget it’ Exchange Protection Solution. I would have never guessed it was possible to combine, streamline and simplify such a cornerstone product.”

Recover Stores, Mailboxes, eMails, Calendars and other Messaging Items in minutes:

“Simply said, EPM is the fastest and easiest way to Backup & Recover Exchange Information Stores, Mailboxes or individual Messaging Items. If something is corrupted or inadvertently deleted the centralized console allows the Exchange administrator to recover Stores, Mailboxes, emails, calendars and other individual messaging items in minutes. The ability to find and recover messaging information quickly is an incredible time saver.”

EPM makes Enterprise-grade Data Protection a breeze:

“Not only are our backup speeds twice as fast as before, but when we require a mailbox or item level recovery, we can bypass the painstakingly slow process of recovering the entire database. We like that our IT staff now has more time to work on other pertinent tasks, in short EPM makes enterprise-grade data protection a breeze.”

All Exchange Administrators should own Exchange Protection Manager:

“After installing EPM, you will never worry about protecting your Exchange data again. EPM is highly intuitive, and the backups and recoveries run incredibly fast. Lucid8’s technical support is highly reliable and knowledgeable, not only of their product, but especially about Exchange, they are definitely one of the best I've worked with. All Exchange Administrators should own Exchange Protection Manager.”