Published: 2012-07-05
Updated: –
Version: 1.0
Here’s a complete step-by-step guide for doing restore using EMC Networker for Exchange 2010.
Personally I’ve used these steps when doing restore of end user mailbox and/or items that has been lost.
Start up “Networker User for Microsoft Applications”, right click Recover and select “Exchange 2010 Recover Session” and select “Database Recover”.
Make sure that the Client selection is pointed to the DAG or specific server.
After a while it will show Microsoft Exchange 2010 and the databases below, right click the database you want to restore and select “Versions”.
Select the date you want to restore from and put a checkbox in “Use selected item backup time as new browse time”. Press OK.
Check so that the database and logs are selected and press “Advance Recover..”
Control so that the source database is correct and that “Recovery Database (RDB) Recovery” is selected. Press Next.
Press the Create button.
Make sure that you have sufficient amount of free disk space before starting the restore.
Save the edb/database file in a folder and give it a friendly name. Press Save.
Give the RDB a friendly name and press Create.
RDB is created successfully.
When the RDB is created, mount it by pressing Mount button.
Mounted successfully.
Press the “RDB Overwrite” button for making sure that Networker is allowed to overwrite the RDB.
Press Next.
Check the summary and press “Start Recover”.
You can monitor the restore process by going to “Monitor” on the left side. It will show information about the restore.
When the restore is completed, it will notify with a window like this.
The last step before everything is restored is to merge/copy the data from the RDB into a mailbox.
I’m using the command “Restore-Mailbox”
The command below is an example from my restore, it restores the mailbox called “LostMailbox” into my mailbox called “Jonas” and puts the contents into a folder called “Recovery”:
Restore-Mailbox –Identity Jonas –RecoveryDatabase RDB –RecoveryMailbox LostMailbox –TargetFolder Recovery
Then it’s pretty easy to use Outlook and move the contents to the correct mailbox, or else put the contents directly into the right mailbox. It’s up to you!
Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125218.aspx
How reliable EMC Networker is? I have heard from my friends that, its not a good product and has lots of issues, specially with storage. Personally I never used it, what is your say on this?
Hi Gulab,
I’ve used EMC Networker for doing restores a couple of times at large customers when it has been emergency, every time it has worked pretty good.
It could be smoother but it works great, I think it can be compared to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
I don’t have any experience regarding the storage or any issues with Networker, just the restore parts since that the most Exchange related thing.
Talk to you later, bye for now
Regards
Jonas
Hi
what permission do you need to give to exchange team to perform restore? add their accounts in admin group in nmc? or create a separate users,called ExchRes under nmc setup? how would this group associated to restore GUI when invoked….just not clear in docs….thanks
Hi Thierry,
I did the restore from EMC using an org mgmt account and made sure that this account also had full access to the mailbox I was restoring the contents to.
The account you’re using for the restore needs permissions for writing to the disk your restoring into, then you need org mgmt for creating the recovery database, and then the account you’re using for the restore of the contents needs to have access to the mailbox it will restore the items into.
I hope it gave you some clarification.
Or else, just post again 🙂
Regards
Jonas
Hi,
Great job, thank for this step by step guide…
Did yo get a chance to run a Disaster Recovery of one DAG with Legato NMM. Is it possible in case of disaster first to recover only one node and all exchange databases on that one node, or both nodes must be first recovered???
Thanks
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your great feedback!
You will be fine if you restore one node, and then get everything back online.
Then you can go for the second node and seed the databases to that one
Here are two good articles with server and database recovery information (maybe you have already read them..)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876880.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876874.aspx
Cheers,
Jonas
If i do not have space in the recovery server, is it possible to create a RDB on a machine in network?
That’s not supported.
Try to add some drives/disks to the server instead.
// Jonas
Credit must be given when its due. Thank you for the well written post.
My company is moving our protection to networker and I just followed your instruction on recovering a mailbox.
Thanks Elazaro for the positive feedback
It makes me happy to see that people like what I’m writing and that it has a value
// Jonas
thanks for your information in restoring Exchange 2010 database. I have got an error after I clicked Advance Recover stating “please select the database node and try again”, but I already selected the database to restore. I am using networker V. 2.4
thanks in advance for your support.
Hi Hassan,
If you followed my post and did get an error within the EMC Software, contact the vendor support for getting the best and most efficient support
Cheers,
Jonas
Hi Jonas
First , thanks for this steps but , I have a question is overwrite the RDB mean that u overwrite my exchange database because I don’t want that I just want to recover an old user mailbox
thanks
Hi,
Verify that you just overwrite your RDB and not the original DB, then you should be fine.
Good luck!
Cheers