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Generate Exchange Granular Restore Catalog Now

Generating exchange catalog is necessary to restore the Exchange Mail. The catalog is generated automatically if you enabled the Generate Exchange catalogs (for Granular Restore) option while adding schedule for the Host-based agentless backup plan. 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.

If you have not enabled the Generate Exchange catalogs (for Granular Restore) option when you created the plan, then you must generate now.

Depending upon your action when you add schedule to the Host-based agentless plan, the catalog status in the Mailbox Database displays the following two options:

• Created: This status appears for a Mailbox Database when you select the checkbox of the Generate Exchange catalogs and the catalog is generated successfully.
• Not Created: This status appears for a Mailbox Database when you do not select the checkbox of the Generate Exchange catalogs or the catalog is not generated successfully.

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

Follow these steps:

1. 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 virtual machine node that you have used for the host-based plan, and click Actions.

   e. Click Restore from the Actions drop-down menu.

   The restore method selection dialog opens.

2. Click the Restore Exchange Mails option.

   The Restore Exchange Mail dialog opens.

   

3. Navigate to the 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.

      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 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 an 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. Enter the encryption password if the recovery point is encrypted.
6. 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.

7. 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 Exchange Granular Restore catalog is generated.