HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for Microsoft Exchange - Manual (Page 106)

previously an alternative forest recovery server was required. Use the Recovery Storage Group
feature in recovery situations where both the following conditions are true:
•
The logical information in Active Directory about the storage group and its mailboxes is intact
and unchanged.
•
You want to recover data from a single mailbox, a single database, or a group of databases
that are in a single storage group. For example, you can use a Recovery Storage Group to
recover items that were deleted and purged from a user mailbox, or you can use a Recovery
Storage Group to restore or to repair a copy of an alternative database while another copy
of the database remains in production.
Creating a Recovery Storage Group
To create a Recovery Storage Group:
1.
Start the Exchange Management Console.
2. Select Toolbox on the bottom of the left panel.
3. Double-click Database Recovery Management in the middle panel.
4. Select Create a recovery storage group.
5. For the storage group or mailbox database names, select the same name as the storage group
and mailbox database names you’d like to recover.
6. Select locations where you’d like the recovery storage group files and mailbox database file(s)
to reside.
7. Create your recovery storage group.
8. Mount the virtual copy you would like to restore from to the production server.
9. Copy the EDB, CHK, and LOG files to the locations you selected for the recovery storage group.
10. Rename all the CHK and LOG files to have the same header as the Recovery Storage Group.
For example, if your Recovery Storage Group has a header of R00, then rename all your E00
headers to R00.
11. Mount the Mailbox Database from the Troubleshooting Assistant.
12. Select Merge or copy mailbox contents and select the specific actions you would like to perform.
Restoring a Mailbox Store to the Recovery Storage Group
You can restore a mailbox store to a Recovery Storage Group by manually copying the database
files to the appropriate folder on the server.
NOTE: Keep the original backup file in case you need to start over.
1. Verify that the database that you want to restore is consistent and that it is in a clean shutdown
state.
a.
Open a command prompt window.
b. Change to the ExchSrvr\Bin folder.
c. Enter the following:
Eseutil /mh YourDatabaseName.edb
d. Press Enter.
e. Note whether the State line shows as State: Clean Shutdown or State: Dirty
Shutdown
.
2. A soft recovery should have been performed immediately after the virtual copy for the database
was created. If it was not performed or if the database is not consistent and the database log
files exist, use the Eseutil.exe tool to perform a soft recovery on the database and commit
any uncommitted logs to the database:
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