Introduction

The Exchange Granular Restore utility is used to restore Microsoft Exchange email and non-email objects. The utility includes the injection capability for items, such as emails, from offline databases (*.EDB) and log files to the original live Exchange databases, as well as granular data extraction to Personal Storage File (.pst) files.

This utility includes the following key benefits:

• Supports non-email items (for example, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks) and public folders.
• Can work with just a database file as well. Logs are not mandatory, but having them will ensure more recent data available for restore.
• It does not need to generate a catalog and directly restores the mail from the mounted recovery point.
• Takes a minimum amount of time to restore a mailbox level item from a database or user mailbox of any size.
• Supports the command line options to process several databases.

Note: For more details on the supported specifications, functionalities, and other features, see the Exchange Granular Restore user guide (esr.pdf).