Hello
I'm running Exchange 2010 SP1 and Backup Exec 2010 R3. We currently perform nightly backups of the exchange database including Full logs, with GRT enabled. We can restore individual items at mail item level without a problem. However we would like to test a full restore of the database in the Recovery environment so we can simulate a full scale recovery scenario.
When I follow the follow steps to restore to a recovery database, I find that my restore (Despite pointing to the Recovery database) restores the database with its original name along side the recovery database. When you try to mount the database it mounts the blank one. Even if I try and restore without first creating the blank database, it still creates one along side the restored one. Also I notice that no logs are restored.
Is there something obvious I am doing wrong?
Steps I have followed:
1. Create 2 folders on the Exchange mailbox server.
•Database –> E:\Recovery\Database
•Transaction Logs –> E:\Recovery\Logs
Make sure you're restoring full backup and not differential otherwise otherwise only the logs will restore.
Create Recovery database in the Management Shell:
New-MailboxDatabase -Recovery -Name RDB -Server DCEXMAILP01 -EdbFilePath "E:\Recovery\RDB\RDB.EDB" -LogFolderPath "E:\Recovery\RDB"
Mount the DB, as you need a blank DB file to Pre-exist then dismount and delete all files except the .edb in the E:\Recovery\Database. (Ensure that on the DB properties the check box is checked for for database can be overwritten by a restore. It should still be checked.
Once recover is complete, the DB will automatically be mounted.