Exchange 2010 recovery database windows#

It also cannot be used as a database copy for Database Availability Group scenarios. A Recovery Database is not counted when Exchange limits the number of databases allowed for Exchange Standard and Enterprise Editions. Recovery DatabaseДЄ Recovery Database is created and used exclusively for the purpose of restoring user email items or mailboxes in a situation where the production mailbox databases are running and healthy. In order to do that, we will introduce a special type of database called Recovery Database. Next step is to extract the user's mailbox and retrieve the email item we want to restore. So far we have restored the exchange database files to an alternate location. In order to demonstrate recovering an email item, let's have a look at the users Outlook Web App client, and delete one email item with subject 'Very important information' as shown below:

Exchange 2010 recovery database windows#

Windows Server Backup does not have an option for single email item recovery, so we must first recover the complete database, and then extract the user mailbox from the database. In this case, the only place from where we can recover our email or mailbox is the backup. Instead we will assume that the email item (or mailbox) has been deleted and the deleted items retention (or deleted mailbox retention) period also expired. Those recovery procedures don't use the backup we created earlier. In our recovery scenarios we will not make use of the deleted items retention and deleted mailbox retention configured at the mailbox database. We are now able to use this backup to perform the following recovery operations: In Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Backup and Restore Part1 we completed the backup procedure.