Administrator Guide

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 flexibility 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 links

Installing and Configuring the Verification 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 in Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, or Exchange 2016) and the built-in tools of

Microsoft Exchange Server.

1. Locate and Expose the restore point that contains the mailbox as described in .

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 files.

b. Specify the path to the exposed files.

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 files.

NOTE: In the preceding example, all files residing in h:\replay users are immediately

available for recovery. If files outside that directory are required, copy them into the path of

the exposed files (in this case h:\replay users).