You can mount a copy of a mailbox store onto a production server and recover data within the restored mailbox store while the current store is running using Recovery Storage Groups. You need to manually create the Recovery Storage Group and add a mailbox store by using Exchange System Manager (ESM).
About this task
When you run the SnapManager restore operation, SnapManager does the following:
- SnapManager mounts the databases and transaction log LUNs onto the Snapshot copy that is created by the selected backup.
Do not move the Exchange group. If you move the Exchange group to another node, the newly added physical disk resources will enter the failed state.
- SnapManager performs a soft recovery process on the databases during the restore operation.
SnapManager tracks the LUN information for unmounting. If your configuration is a cluster configuration, SnapManager adds mounted LUNs in a Snapshot copy to the Exchange cluster group as a physical disk resource.
After the soft recovery is complete, the databases are in a Clean Shutdown state.
Steps
- Start Exchange System Manager (ESM).
- Choose the option to create a recovery storage group.
- Enter the transaction log location path by clicking the Browse button to locate and select the LUN that SnapManager connected to during the restore operation.
- Copy the transaction log location path to the System path location field.
- Click OK to save your changes.
- Select the database you want to recover then click OK.
- Click the Database tab.
- Enter the path to the database located on the LUN that SnapManager connected to during the restore operation.
- Add a unique database file name to the path.
The database file name can be any name except the existing database file name. The Exchange database file name must end in .edb. For example, SG2-DB1-RSG.edb.
- Copy the Exchange database path and file name to the Exchange streaming database field and replace the .edb suffix if the database file name with .stm.
- Click OK.
- Start Windows Explorer and navigate to the location of the database LUN that SnapManager connected to during the restore.
- Rename the existing database files to the unique database file names you just created.
- Mount the databases to the Recovery Storage Group.
- To restore more than one database to the same Storage Group, repeat steps 1 through 15.
- To restore the database from a different Storage Group, delete all of the databases in the Recovery Storage Group and remove the Recovery Storage Group through ESM.
