Hi Wanda,
The section in the User's Guide you are referring to contains
instructions on how to perform mailbox restore manually.
The mailbox restore browser is documented in that same chapter
and performs these tasks for you automatically.
Data Protection for Exchange will automatically create a Recovery
Database if no Recovery Database exists on the local server.
Data Protection for Exchange can also connect to an existing
Recovery Database that was created outside of it.
For your other questions:
- Data Protection for Exchange will restore the backup EDB file
and log files to local disk, and create a Recovery Database
on top of it. So local disk must have enough space to hold
the temporary restored EDB file and log files.
- The Recovery Database is created on the Exchange server where
Data Protection for Exchange runs. The Recovery Database does
not have to be created on the same server where the mailboxes
were originally backed up.
- See following section from User Guide for how to delete RDB:
The Close Mailbox to Restore button appears after a
Recovery Storage Group or Recovery Database is created.
When you click this button, Data Protection for Exchange
removes the Recovery Storage Group or Recovery Database it
created and cleans up the restored files. If you do not
select Close Mailbox to Restore, the Recovery Storage Group
or Recovery Database is not removed even if you exit
the Management Console.
I have notified the User's Guide team so they can attempt to
clarify this section in the next draft of the book.
If you are having trouble getting this working, please contact support
and they can help you through it.
Thanks,
Del
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu> wrote on 03/22/2013
03:25:18 PM:
> From: "Prather, Wanda" <wanda.prat...@icfi.com>
> To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu,
> Date: 03/22/2013 03:26 PM
> Subject: Exchange 2010, TDP 6.4, Mailbox Restore Browser, Recovery DB?
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu>
>
> TSM server 6.3.3 on Win2K8
> Exchange 2010, 4 servers in a DAG config
> TSM Client 6.4.0
> TDP for Exchange 6.4 installed on a server with passive data bases only
> VSS backups, no VSS Instant Restore
> Backups run OK, can do mailbox restores, mailbox history is enabled.
>
> Now, to restore individual mailbox items, the book says you must
> first use the Exchange console to create a Recovery Data Base.
> (P. 110-113)
> But it looks like when you pull down the Mailbox Restore Browser, it
> starts the restore anyway and the TDP creates a Recovery Data Base
> on its own, is this correct? (I'm basing this on a subsequent error
> that said "Recovery Data Base TSMRDB-exchangename already exists")
>
> Is there any doc on what it does? I'm assuming it creates a
> recovery DB the same size as the mailbox DB to be restored?
> Does it create it on the server where the mailbox was backed up, or
> on the server where the restore is being run?
> Is it supposed to delete the RDB when the restore is finished, or is
> the Exchange DBA supposed to do that?
> If somebody goes crazy with it, will there be a space issue?
>
> Thanks
> W
>
>
>
>
> Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.com
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