Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 292)

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By using Acronis Backup, you can recover Exchange database files from a disk backup. To bring a
database online, mount it. For details, see "Mounting Exchange Server databases" (p. 292).
If you need to perform granular recovery of individual mailboxes or their items, mount the restored
database either as a recovery database (RDB) in Exchange 2010, or to a recovery storage group (RSG)
in Exchange 2003/2007. For details, see "Granular recovery of mailboxes" (p. 293).
11.3.1 Recovering Exchange Server database files from a disk
backup
This section describes how to use Acronis Backup to recover Exchange Server database files from a
disk backup.
For instructions on how to find out the database paths, refer to "Exchange Server database files" (p.
282).
To recover Exchange Server databases
1. Connect the console to the machine on which you are going to perform the operation.
2. Navigate to the vault containing the disk backup with the Exchange data files.
3. Click the Data view tab. In the Show list, click Folders/files.
4. Select the required Exchange database files and click Recover. By default, the data will be
reverted to the state of the latest backup. If you need to select another point in time to revert
the data to, use the Versions list.
5. On the recovery page under What to recover section:
a. In Data paths, select Custom.
b. In Browse, specify a folder where the database files will be recovered to.
6. Leave the rest of the settings "as is" and click OK to proceed with recovery.
11.3.2 Mounting Exchange Server databases
After recovering the database files, you can bring the databases online by mounting them. Mounting
is performed by using Exchange Management Console, Exchange System Manager, or Exchange
Management Shell.
The recovered databases will be in a Dirty Shutdown state. A database that is in a Dirty Shutdown
state can be mounted by the system if it is recovered to its original location (that is, information
about the original database is present in Active Directory). When recovering a database to an
alternate location (such as a new database or as the recovery database), the database cannot be
mounted until you bring it to a Clean Shutdown state by using the Eseutil /r <Enn> command.
<Enn> specifies the log file prefix for the database (or storage group that contains the database) into
which you need to apply the transaction log files.
The account you use to attach a database must be delegated an Exchange Server Administrator role
and a local Administrators group for the target server.
For details about how to mount databases, see the following articles:
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Exchange 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998871.aspx
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Exchange 2007: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998871(v=EXCHG.80).aspx
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Exchange 2003: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124040.aspx