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24 TR1059 | V4.0 | Exchange 2013 Data Protection with EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition 4.6 and PS
Series Arrays
the host and Exchange Server. At the same time, the PS Series group creates an additional snapshot of the
Mailbox Database volume state before restoring the Smart Copy. This snapshot appears offline in the PS
Series Group Manager GUI and can be used for debugging problems that may have caused the Mailbox
Database corruption or failure.
The Restore All Mailbox Database restore has two options (Figure 10):
• Mount all mail stores after restore. This option fully restores the Mailbox Database with the Smart
Copy and bring the Mailbox Database online to users at completion
• Do not mount mail stores after restore. This option restores the Mailbox Database to the time of the
Smart Copy but leaves the Mailbox Database in a “restoring” state so that log file backups can be
applied for additional point-in-time granularity (used in a non-DAG environment, greyed out in
Figure 10 DAG node smartcopy).
Note: Rolling logs forward is a completely manual process at this time.
Figure 10 Restore all restore options
9.2 Create recovery mailbox database (RDB)
Recovery Mailbox Databases is a feature of Microsoft Exchange that enables you to mount a copy of a
mailbox store to Microsoft Exchange server. You can recover data from the restored mailbox store while
the live store remains online. Both Exchange 2003 and 2007 have mailbox data recovery wizards, whereas
Exchange 2010 and 2013 has replaced the wizard with Power Shell for a more granular restore.