IBM DS6000, DS8000 Recovering Mailbox Data with Granular Restore Technology

Exchange 2003 VSS Backup Solution

For IBM Storage DS8000/DS6000

And Symantec Backup Exec 11d

Page 70 David West, David Hartman

©Copyright IBM Corp. 2007

6. To enter the path, on the Restore Job Properties pane, under

Settings, click Advanced, and then enter a path in Path on media

server for staging temporary restore data when restoring

individual items from tape. For more information about this path,

see “Advanced options for restore jobs” on page 494 of the Backup

Exec Administrators Guide.

7. Select specific restore options from the Properties pane as

appropriate, and then start the restore job.

Note the following when restoring Exchange data from snapshot backups:

• The specific options No loss restore, Temporary location for log and

patch files, Purge all files, and Commit after restore completes are

not applicable for VSS. Backup Exec performs a no loss restore and

Exchange will use the soft-recovery process when the restored

databases are mounted.

• Backup Exec always performs a “no loss” restore from VSS backups.

During Exchange recovery, both existing and restored transaction logs

will replay. However, as a work around, a “point in time” restore from

VSS is possible by manually deleting all current transaction log files

before starting the restore job. Point in time restore capability is

planned for a future release.

• Exchange 2003 does not support restoring from a snapshot backup to a

Recovery Storage Group (RSG).

• Backup Exec 11d does not currently support VSS restores at the

Exchange database level. This will be supported in a future release. If

restores of individual databases are required, then each Storage Group

must be configured with only one database.

Recovering Mailbox Data with Granular Restore Technology

Symantec’s GRT solution provides restore capabilities from any type of

Backup Exec backup jobs, including VSS on host snapshot backups. GRT is

not currently available from off-host VSS backups. If you checked Enable the

restore of individual mail messages and folders from Information Store

backups on the backup job properties for the Information Store backups,

then you can restore individual messages and folders from that backup. The

below illustration shows the granular selection possible.