How to use Data Protector 6.0 or 6.
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................3 Exchange 2003.................................................................................................................................4 Creating a Recovery Storage Group .................................................................................................4 Restoring the Information Store using Data Protector ................................
Introduction Being able to backup and restore Exchange individual mailboxes is a high priority in many environments. Data Protector provides this functionality in the “Single Mailbox Backup/Restore” feature. The Single Mailbox Backup/Restore feature uses the Microsoft MAPI protocol, which has limitations regarding performance. For best performance, you need either to select a relatively small number of mailboxes to be backed up, or use the feature in smaller Exchange environments.
Exchange 2003 Creating a Recovery Storage Group To create a Recovery Storage Group: 1. Start Exchange System Manager. 2. Expand Administrative Groups (if appropriate), expand AdministrativeGroupName (if appropriate), and then expand Servers. 3. Right-click ServerName, point to New, and then click Recovery Storage Group. 4. In the Name box, type a name for the Recovery Storage Group. Try to use the same name that you used for the original storage group.
7. Select the Options tab and define the directory for temporary log files. Select the check boxes Last restore set, Mount databases after recovery, and Last consistent state. 8. Click on the Action Menu Bar and select Start Restore. 9. Respond to the Restore wizard if appropriate and then click Finish. 10. Observe the restore progress and address any error messages as appropriate. 11. After the Data Protector Restore has completed successfully, start the Exchange System Manager.
Observe the existence of user mailboxes. 14. Close the Exchange System Manager. Using EXMERGE to recover a single mailbox 1. You may need to download exmerge.exe from the Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=429163EC-DCDF-47DC-96DA1C12D67327D5&displaylang=en. Be sure that you download the correct version of exmerge for your version of Exchange. 2. Execute exmerge.exe to start the Mailbox Merge wizard. Follow the instructions on screen. 3.
Exchange 2007 Creating a Recovery Storage Group To create a Recovery Storage Group: 1. Start the Exchange Management Console. 2. Double-click on the Toolbox. 3. Double-click on Database Recovery Management. 4. Enter an identifying label for this activity and click Next. 5. Click Create a recovery storage group. 6. Select the Storage Group you want to link with the Recovery Storage Group. 7. Click Next.
10. Close the Exchange Management Console. Restoring the Information Store using Data Protector 1. Start the Data Protector Manager GUI. 2. Select the Restore context. 3. Expand MS Exchange Server. 4. Expand the Exchange Server Name you wish to recover to. 5. Double-click MS Exchange Server [Microsoft Exchange Server (Microsoft Information Store)]. 6. Select the Mailbox Store to which you linked the Recovery Storage Group earlier. 7.
8. Click on the Action Menu Bar and select Start Restore. 9. Respond to the Restore wizard if appropriate when necessary and then click Finish. 10. Observe the restore progress and address any error messages as appropriate. i 11. After the Data Protector restore has completed successfully, close the Data Protector Manager. Using the Exchange Management Console to recover a single mailbox 1. Start the Exchange Management Console. 2. Double-click on Toolbox. 3. Double-click on Database Recovery Management.
5. Click Merge or copy mailbox contents. 6. Click Gather merge information. 7. Click Perform pre-merge tasks. 8. Select the mailboxes that you would like to recover. Main Title Subtitle 9. Click Perform merge actions. 10. Examine the next screen and troubleshoot accordingly if there are errors. 11. Close the Exchange Management Console.
Notes • The user mailboxes in a Recovery Storage Group cannot be connected to user accounts in the Active Directory. The only supported method that can be used to access mailboxes in a Recovery Storage Group is by using the Exchange Server 2003 version of the Exmerge.exe tool or the Exchange troubleshooting assistant in the Exchange 2007 Server.
