How to Recover Exchange Server and Data
You recovery backed up Exchange data using the DPM Recovery Wizard. You can recover the following: supports recovery of Exchange Server mailboxes through the Recovery Wizard. When you click an Exchange Server database in the Protected data pane in the wizard, DPM displays the mailboxes that belong to that database.
DPM can recover a single mailbox. It copies the all database to do so as recommended by Exchange. See Microsoft support policy for third-party products that modify or extract Exchange database contents. Individual mailbox recovery is done through a recovery database rather than directly to the database that hosted the original mailbox. The recovery database must exist before you can attempt this recovery.
1. On the protected Exchange Server, verify whether you have an existing recovery exchange mailbox database. If you don’t, create one using the New-MailboxDatabase cmdlet. To configure the recovery database so it can be overwritten by using the Set-MailboxDatabase cmdlet. For example:
New-MailboxDatabase -Recovery -Name RDB-CONTROL -Server E2K13-MBX1
Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity ‘RDB-CONTROL’ -AllowFileRestore $true
2. In the DPM Administrator Console, go to the Recovery view and navigate to the mailbox database you want to recover (in the All Protectd Exchange Data node).
3. Available recovery points are indicated in bold on the calendar in the recovery points section. Click a date, select a recovery point in Recovery time > Recover.Note that you won’t be able to select Latest. This isn’t available for individual mailboxes.
4. In the Recovery Wizard review your recovery selection, and click Next.
5. Specify the type of recovery you would like to perform and click Next.
6. In the Specify Recovery Options page do the following:
- Mount the databases after they are recovered. Clear the check box if you don’t want to mount the databases.
- Network bandwidth usage throttling. Click Modify to enable throttling.
- Click Enable SAN-based recovery using hardware snapshots if applicable.
- In Notification click Send an e-mail when the recovery completes, and specify the recipients. Separate the e-mail addresses with commas.
7. On the Summary page review your recovery settings, and click Recover. When the recovery finishes click Close.Any synchronization job for the selected recovery item is canceled while the recovery is in progress.
After the recovery process has finished, the required mailbox is not quite fully restored. The mailbox database to which the mailbox belongs is only restored to the Recovery mailbox database. Restore the mailbox by running this cmdlet:
New-MailboxRestoreRequest –SourceDatabase ’RDB-CONTROL’ –SourceStoreMailbox ‘mailbox name’ –TargetMailbox @contoso.com –TargetRootFolder Recovery -SkipMerging StorageProviderForSource
You must add -SkipMerging StorageProviderForSource to the command; otherwise an error occurs. For a workaround, see Release Notes for Exchange 2013.
When you now open the mailbox, all its contents until 3:15 PM are located beneath the Recovery folder.
9. After you finished the restore, you can dismount and delete the Recovery Mailbox database by running the following Windows PowerShell cmdlet.
Remove-MailboxDatabase -Identity ‘RDB-CONTROL’
See Overview Recover an Exchange server and data