Users Guide

• Use of Expose and Restore to Recover Exchange:
Replay Manager oers two methods for recovering data: Restore or Expose. Both methods provide immediate access to the data using
the snapshots.
The Restore function provides the easiest method for recovering a Storage Group. By selecting the restore point and then clicking
Restore Backup Set, the Restore operation accesses the requested restore point and copies the transaction logs and databases
contained within the backup set back to the production volumes. Using Restore requires a dismount of the existing Storage Group and
databases since the Restore replaces all Storage Group components. Depending on the size of the database, this can be a time
consuming operation as data is copied from one volume to another. This one-click approach is easy for administrators to use; however
Restore provides only a point-in-time recovery from which the restore point was created.
The Expose function provides more exibility for recovering individual components. When a restore point is exposed as a drive letter or
mount point, an administrator can then manually select components to recover.
NOTE: Restoring a Replay will eliminate any changes made since the Replay was taken. It is advised to create a Replay after all
changes are made to a database or use the Expose function to manually merge the Replay data with the existing data set.
Related link
Installing and Conguring the Verication Service for Exchange
Recover a Mailbox
To recover an individual mailbox, Expose the restore point as a drive letter or mount point. Once the snapshot is exposed, an administrator
can recover a mailbox using a Recovery Storage Group or Recovery Database and the built-in tools of Microsoft Exchange Server.
1 Locate and Expose the restore point that contains the mailbox as described in Expose a Restore Point (Windows Extensions Only).
2 In the Expose Restore Point Volumes dialog box:
a Make sure that you expose both the Database and the Log volumes, by setting drive letters for both volumes shown.
b Select Make exposed volumes writable.
3 Click Expose.
4 To verify that the drive was created, use the Computer Management console on the server:
a Right-click the computer where the drive should appear and select Manage.
b In the Computer Management navigation tree, expand the Storage entry.
c Select Disk Management.
d If the drive does not appear, select Action→ Rescan Disks.
5 Use the Exchange Management Shell to recover the mailbox database:
a Create a database pointer for the recovery les.
b Specify the path to the exposed les.
For example:
C:\>new-mailboxdatabase -recovery -name Emailrecovery1 -server ex2010-mb1 -EdbFilePath
“h:\replay users\replay users.edb" -logfolderpath "h:\replay users"
Where Emailrecovery1 is the database name, ex2010-mb1 is the server name, and h:\replay users is the path of the exposed
les.
NOTE
: In the preceding example, all les residing in ”h:\replay users “ are immediately available for recovery.
If les outside that directory are required, copy them into the path of the exposed les (in this case h:\replay
users).
6 Use the ESEUTIL program to put the database into a clean shutdown.
7 In the Exchange Management Organization Conguration/Mailbox dialog box, right-click the recovered database and select Mount
Database.
8 Create a restore request for the mailbox to recover. For example, to restore an entire mailbox: H:\Replay Users>new-
mailboxrestorerequest -sourcedatabase emailrecovery1 -sourcestoremailbox "John Hancock" -
targetmailbox [e-mail]
where the target mailbox is the email address of the mailbox you are restoring.
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