IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager for Mail protects data on email servers running IBM Lotus® Domino® or Microsoft Exchange. This software module for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager enables data protection of your mail databases while they are online. It automates data protection, enables hot backups without shutting down the application and improves data restore performance. Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Provides item-level recovery of Microsoft Exchange email objects. Search capabilities allow you to recover a user’s mailbox or individual items within the mailbox. Uses APIs provided by email application vendors to perform online hot backups and improve restores without shutting down the email application. Helps protect the growing amount of new and changing data that should be securely backed up to help maintain continuous availability. Exploits the Lotus Domino transaction logging feature, which enables the capture and logging of database changes, resulting in less-frequent full backups. Uses Microsoft backup APIs to create a copy of the Exchange server storage group databases and the associated transaction logs. Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail can produce the different types of backups specified by the Microsoft backup APIs: full, incremental, differential, copy and database copy backups.