Recovering data with hp 3par recovery manager, Recovering data with auto-restore, Recovering data – HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software User Manual

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GUI, or by scheduling virtual copies either through HP 3PAR Recovery Manager or via
Windows automatic scheduled task application. For more information, see

“Using the Recovery

Manager GUI” (page 40)

or

“Running HP 3PAR Recovery Manager as a Scheduled Job”

(page 98)

.

With HP 3PAR Recovery Manager’s optional policy settings, you can maintain a specified
number of the latest virtual copies to stay online. These online virtual copies can then be
mounted to the staging Exchange server for point-in-time recovery, thus eliminating the need
to restore from tape, which can take hours.

After the virtual copy has been mounted to the backup server, you can perform a backup to
tape of the virtual copy using HP 3PAR Recovery Manager.

You can easily recover data using HP 3PAR Recovery Manager's file copy and volume promote
restore features.

NOTE:

Backup to tape can be performed in one easy command with a quick backup. For more

information, see

“HpRmCli Exch backup” (page 67)

.

Recovering Data with HP 3PAR Recovery Manager

This release version of HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft Exchange now automates
the restoration operations for all configurations except for Single Copy Clusters (SCC) for Exchange
2007 and Media restore (both Exchange 2007 and 2010). The manual steps are required only
in the case of restoring SCC and Media restore configurations. For information about using
Auto-Restore feature, see

“Recovering Data with Auto-Restore” (page 101)

In many cases, the Exchange server is able to quietly recover when a server crashes and the
contents of the database buffer in the memory are lost. Exchange automatically recovers when you
start the information store after the failure using the checkpoint file to identify the oldest transaction
not flushed to disk and then replaying log files forward. If the checkpoint file is missing, all the log
files are scanned to determine whether any committed transactions have not been written to the
database. At the end, the database is consistent and can start normally.

HP 3PAR Recovery Manager provides several options for a full mailbox database recovery:

Point-in-time recovery

FileCopy and Volume Promotion Point-in-time recovery

FileCopy and Volume Promotion Point-of-failure recovery

Single mailbox recovery

Recovering Data with Auto-Restore

You can use an auto-restore feature to restore a database from a virtual copy from the following
configurations:

(For Exchange 2010/ Exchange 2013) Recovery procedures for Exchange 2010 or Exchange
2013 Database Availability Group (DAG) configurations should be run on the active copy of
the mailbox database

(For Exchange 2007) Recovery procedures for Local Continuous Replication (LCR) or Cluster
Continuous Replication (CCR) Exchange 2007 configurations should be run on the active copy
of the database (the active node for CCR)

Exchange 2010/2013 DAG (both active and passive node recovery)

Exchange 2007 CCR (active node recovery)

Exchange 2007 LCR

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