47 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2016
recovery fails for some reason and you are looking for a workaround to mount the databases
manually (p. 47).
To recover Exchange data
We will refer to both databases and storage groups as "databases" throughout this procedure.
1. Click Microsoft Exchange.
Machines with Agent for Exchange installed are shown.
2. Select the machine that originally contained the data that you want to recover.
3. Click Recovery.
4. Select a recovery point. Note that recovery points are filtered by location.
If the machine is offline, the recovery points are not displayed. Use other ways to recover:
If the backup is located in the cloud storage, click Select machine, select an online machine
that has Agent for Exchange, and then select a recovery point.
Select a recovery point on the Backups tab (p. 48).
The machine chosen for browsing in either of the above actions becomes a target machine for
the Exchange data recovery.
5. Click Recover Exchange databases.
6. Select the data that you want to recover.
7. If you want to recover the databases as files, click Recover as files, select a local or a network
folder to save the files to, and then click Recover. Otherwise, skip this step.
8. Click Recover. If prompted, provide credentials to access the Exchange Server.
9. By default, the databases are recovered to the original ones. If the original database does not
exist, it will be recreated.
To recover a database as a different one:
a. Click the database name.
b. In Recover to, select New database.
c. Specify the new database name.
d. Specify the new database path and log path. The folder you specify must not contain the
original database and log files.
10. Click Start recovery.
11. If the databases are recovered to the original ones, confirm overwriting the databases with their
backed-up versions.
The recovery progress is shown on the Activities tab.
2.9.7.1 Mounting Exchange Server databases
After recovering the database files, you can bring the databases online by mounting them. Mounting
is performed by using Exchange Management Console, Exchange System Manager, or Exchange
Management Shell.
The recovered databases will be in a Dirty Shutdown state. A database that is in a Dirty Shutdown
state can be mounted by the system if it is recovered to its original location (that is, information
about the original database is present in Active Directory). When recovering a database to an
alternate location (such as a new database or as the recovery database), the database cannot be
mounted until you bring it to a Clean Shutdown state by using the Eseutil /r <Enn> command.
<Enn> specifies the log file prefix for the database (or storage group that contains the database) into
which you need to apply the transaction log files.
