Installation guide

Host machine credentials

Available if the Outlook 2003-2013 format is selected.

If you connect the console to the Exchange server (host) with Agent for Exchange remotely, the host

machine credentials are filled automatically and you do not have to enter them. If the console is

connected to the Exchange server locally, specify the user name and password. The user account has

to be a member of the Administrators group on the host. When entering the name of an Active

Directory user account, be sure to also specify the domain name (DOMAIN\Username or

Username@domain).

Access credentials

Provide credentials for the destination if the task credentials do not enable recovery of the selected

data. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also specify the

domain name (DOMAIN\Username or Username@domain).

6.5 Using Acronis Active Restore for database recovery

Acronis Active Restore brings up Microsoft Exchange services online in minutes allowing users to

access their e-mails while the Exchange databases or storage groups are still being recovered.

How it works

1. Once the recovery task is started, the Exchange databases are dismounted.

2. The transaction log files, checkpoint files, and other Exchange files required for recovery are

copied from the backup to the target destination.

3. The backed-up databases are mounted virtually from the archive to the target destination. The

file system and the Exchange server treat these virtual databases files as physical ones.

4. The virtual databases are mounted to the Exchange server and transaction logs are applied to the

databases. The Exchange server becomes operational and ready to provide services. Users can

send and receive e-mails, work with their mailboxes, contacts, calendar and e-mails even though

they are not yet recovered.

The Acronis Active Restore drivers intercept Exchange user queries and set the immediate

priority for recovery of the Exchange items that are necessary to serve the incoming requests.

While this on-the-fly recovery proceeds, the continuing database recovery process is transferred

to the background.

5. The background recovery of physical databases continues until all the selected databases are

recovered. After the recovery is completed, the virtual databases are dismounted and the

physical databases are mounted to the Exchange server, which takes less than a minute.

6.6 Usage examples

This section provides examples of how you can recover the Exchange data.

6.6.1 Example 1. Recovering mailboxes to .pst files

Typical usage scenarios for recovering mailboxes to a .pst files are:

 Migrating mailboxes between different Exchange servers.

Example: the administrator needs to safely move mailboxes from the existing Exchange

organization to a newer Exchange Server version (i.e., from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010).