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Generate a Microsoft Exchange Granular Restore Catalog Now

If you enabled the Exchange Granular Restore option at backup, the corresponding Exchange Granular Restore catalogs are generated during each backup. These catalogs help you to perform granular recoveries (at mailbox, mailbox folder, and or mail item levels) by letting you browse and select exactly which Exchange object you want to recover. However, if you disabled the Exchange Granular Restore option at backup, the Exchange mailboxes may not be displayed when you are trying to browse the mailbox database in a recovery point because the corresponding catalog was not generated.

Before you perform the restore, you can generate the catalog manually from the Restore Exchange Mails dialog.

Follow these steps:

1. From the CA ARCserve D2Dhome page (or CA ARCserve D2D Monitor), select Restore.

   The restore methods selection dialog opens.

2. Click the Restore Exchange Mails option.

   The Restore Exchange Mails dialog opens.

   

3. Navigate to the Microsoft Exchange mailbox database that you want to restore:
   1. Specify the backup location. You can either specify a location or browse to the location where your backup images are stored. If necessary, enter the User name and Password credentials to gain access to that location. You can click green arrow validate icon to verify proper access to the source location.

      The calendar view will highlight (in green) all dates during the displayed time period that contain recovery points for that backup source.

   2. Select the calendar date for the backup image you want to restore.

      The corresponding Microsoft Exchange mailbox databases for that date are displayed, along with the time of the backup, the type of backup that was performed, and the name of the backup.

4. Select a Microsoft Exchange mailbox database that you want to restore and click Next.

   A pop-up message displays informing you that the Exchange Granular Restore catalog has not been generated for the selected database and asking you if you want to generate the catalog now.

   

5. Click Yes to launch the process of generating an Exchange Granular Restore catalog.

   The Exchange Granular Restore catalog for the selected database is generated. The process of generating a catalog could be time-consuming depending upon the size of the database.

   During the catalog generating process, the Job Monitor displays information about the ongoing event, with the estimated time remaining to complete the catalog job.

   Note: If you select No for generating a catalog now, you cannot browse to or cannot select a granular recovery point. As a result you can only perform a full database restore.

6. When the catalog generating process is finished, click Next to continue the Exchange Granular Restore of the selected database.

   The granular restore can now be continued.

   Note: If you attempt to click Next while the catalog is still being generated, a pop-up message appears informing you of this condition.

The Microsoft Exchange Granular Restore catalog is generated.