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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.

Note: The cache file, which is used to record the data change when mounting a writable volume from the backup session, must be on a non-4k sector size disk.

Follow these steps:

1. Access the restore method selection dialog in one of the following ways:
   • From Arcserve UDP:

     a. Log in to Arcserve UDP.

     b. Click the resources tab.

     c. Select All Nodes in the left pane.

     All the added nodes are displayed in the center pane.

     d. In the center pane, select the node and click Actions.

     e. Click Restore from the Actions dropdown menu.

     The restore method selection dialog opens.

     Note: You are automatically logged in to the agent node and the restore method selection dialog is opened from the agent node.

   • From Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows):

     a. Log in to Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows).

     b. From the home page, select Restore.

     The restore method selection dialog opens.

2. Click the Restore Exchange Mails option.

   The Restore Exchange Mail 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.

   The Submit Exchange Granular Restore Catalog Job dialog 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 OK 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 Cancel 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.