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Specify the Exchange Mailbox Database

The Arcserve UDP solution lets you browse recovery points to locate individual objects within an Exchange database to perform granular restore. You can either select restore to the original location or restore to a different location. The Exchange Mail recovery can only be made using the Restore by Recovery Point method.

Follow these steps:

1. From Arcserve UDP:

   a. Log in to Arcserve UDP.

   b. Click the resources tab.

   c. From the left pane, select All Nodes.

   All the added nodes are displayed on the center pane.

   d. Perform one of the following steps to reach the Restore dialog:

   • From the All Nodes page, right click the virtual machine node name, and select Restore from the options.
   • From the center pane, select the virtual machine node using which you have created the host-based plan, click Actions, and from the Actions drop-down menu click Restore.
   • From the All Nodes page, click the virtual machine node name and from the virtual machine node name page that is displayed click the Restore link.

   The restore method selection dialog opens.

2. Click the Restore Exchange Mail option.

   The Restore Exchange Mail dialog opens.

   

3. Click Change to modify the Backup location.

   The Source dialog opens. You can select the backup location.

   

4. Select one of the following options:

   Select local disk or shared folder

   1. Specify or browse to the location where your backup images are stored and select the appropriate backup source.

      If necessary, enter the username and password credentials to gain access to that source location.

      The Select backup location dialog opens.

   2. Select the folder where the recovery points are stored and click OK.

      The Select backup location dialog closes. You can view the backup location in the Source dialog.

   3. Click OK.

      The recovery points are listed in the Restore Exchange Mail dialog.

   Select Recovery Point Server

   1. Specify the Recovery Point Server setting details and click Refresh.

      All the agents are listed in the right column under Node.

   2. Select the agent from the displayed list and click OK.

      The recovery points are listed in the Restore Exchange Mail dialog.

5. From the Recovery Points Date calendar, select the date for the backup image to restore.

   All the dates containing recovery points for the specified backup source are highlighted in green.

   The corresponding Exchange mailbox databases for that date are displayed, with the time of the backup, the type of backup that was performed (Full, Incremental, or Verify), and the name of the backup.

6. Specify an Exchange mailbox database that you want to restore and click Next.

   Note: The catalog status of a mailbox database is either Created or Not Created. You can proceed only if the status is Created. If the status of catalog shows Not Created, to use that Exchange mailbox you need to generate catalog now.

   The Restore Exchange Mail dialog is updated to display a listing of the mailbox content for the selected database.

   

The Exchange mailbox database is specified.