Installation guide

6.3 Selecting target destinations for databases or

storage groups

When creating a recovery task on the management server, you can select the Exchange Server to

recover the selected data to. To do this, click Browse and select the required Exchange server with

the Agent for Exchange installed.

In the Data paths drop-down box, select one the following data paths:

 Original (p. 34) - recover the databases or storage groups to their original paths (the paths are

taken from the backup).

 Custom (p. 34) - recover the databases or storage groups as new, over the existing ones, or as

recovery databases or recovery storage groups.

 Specified folder (p. 35) - extract the database or storage group files to a folder you specify.

6.3.1 Recovering storage groups or databases to the original path

The original path for a database or a storage group means the path taken from the backup.

If the same databases or storage groups exist in the original paths, they will be overwritten (if the

overwriting is allowed in the properties of the selected databases). The paths to the existing

databases or storage group cannot be changed.

If the database being recovered does not exist in the original path, you can change the default path

taken from the backup by clicking the database name. In Exchange 2010 or later, you can also change

the path to the transaction log files. As soon as you change any of the default settings, the Original

switches to the Custom. If you switch back to the Original, the customized mapping for databases or

storage groups will be reverted to the default one.

To mount the databases after recovery, in Mount recovered databases select either Mount or

Mount with Active Restore. In the latter case, the databases will be recovered using the Acronis

Active Restore (p. 39) technology allowing users to access their e-mails while the Exchange databases

are still being recovered.

For information about the original paths for Exchange clusters, see the "Recovering data to the

Exchange cluster" (p. 51) section.

6.3.2 Recovering storage groups or databases to a custom path

Specify where to recover the selected databases or storage groups.

Note: Since Microsoft Exchange Server has its own versioning limitations, Acronis Backup will inform you about

any possible mismatch of Exchange server versions when you recover databases or storage groups to a different

version of Exchange server. This alert will not prevent you from doing the recovery, but the recovery will fail if

the Microsoft Exchange Server cannot identify the database or storage being recovered.

To recover the selected databases (storage groups) to a new databases (storage groups)

1. To the right of the Recover <database or storage group name> to, select Create new.

2. Click Name... and specify the unique name for the database/storage group.

3. In Database path, specify path to the new database.

4. In Log path, specify where to store the recovered transaction log files.

5. Repeat steps 1-4 for other databases or storage groups that you need to recover as new.