Installation guide

To recover the selected databases (storage groups) over the existing ones

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

databases (storage groups). The existing database (storage group) will be overwritten (if the

overwriting is allowed in the properties of the selected databases).

2. Repeat step 1 for other databases or storage groups that you need to recover over the existing

ones.

To recover the selected database (storage group) as a recovery database (recovery storage

group)

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

Recovery storage group. Only one database or storage group can be recovered as a recovery

database or as a recovery storage group.

2. In Database path, specify the database location.

3. In Log path, specify where to store the recovered transaction log files. In Exchange 2003/2007

you have to specify path to the log files only if the destination recovery storage group does not

exist.

A recovery database (recovery storage group) is a special administrative database (storage group) in

Exchange server. It lets you mount a mailbox database and extract data from it. The extracted data

can be copied or merged to the existing mailboxes without disturbing user access to the current data.

Note for public folder databases: A public folder database cannot be recovered as a recovery database (in

Exchange 2010) and cannot be recovered to a recovery storage group (in Exchange 2003, 2007). When

recovering a storage group containing a public folder database, this database is skipped during recovery. If a

storage group being recovered contains a public folder database only, the recovery task will fail.

Note for Exchange 2003, 2007: The existing recovery storage group will be overwritten. Databases that

currently do not exist on the server cannot be recovered to a recovery storage group. When recovering a

storage group containing non-existent databases, such databases are skipped during recovery. If a storage

group being recovered does not contain any databases which currently exist on the server, the recovery task will

fail.

Mounting the recovered databases

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.

Mounting a recovery database in Exchange 2010 or later: When you recover the selected database as a

recovery database and choose Mount or Mount with Active Restore, the database will be mounted

automatically only if there is no other recovery database that is currently mounted on the server. We

recommend that you manually unmount the existing mounted recovery database before recovery. Otherwise,

you need to unmount the existing recovery database and mount a newly recovered database after recovery.

6.3.3 Recovering databases or storage groups to the specified

folder

Recovering databases or storage groups to the specified folder means that the database files along

with transaction log files are extracted from the backup to a folder you specify. This can be useful if

you need to extract data for audit or further processing by third party tools; or when the recovery

fails for some reason and you are looking for a workaround to mount the databases manually.