Restore your data to a recovery database. You must already
back up your database before you attempt this task.
About this task
Information regarding recovery database processing is
written to the Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange activity
log file (tdpexc.log by default).
Note: When you
restore to a recovery database, you must specify the option to replay
restored logs only, otherwise the restore can fail. Select Replay
Restored Logs ONLY in the GUI Restore tab or specify /recover=applyrestoredlogs on
the command line.
Procedure
To restore data to a recovery database, complete the
following steps:
- Use the Exchange Management Console to create the recovery
database if one does not exist. You can also use PowerShell commands
(cmdlets) to do this step.
- Use Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange to
restore the mailbox database.
For VSS Restores, select
the name of a database into which a VSS backup is restored (use the
INTO command to select the database to restore into). To restore into
a recovery database, a recovery database must exist.
Tip: From the Management Console, you can right-click the backup
that you want to restore, and click Restore Into,
or select the backup and click Restore Into in
the Actions pane.
Only transaction logs
that are contained in the backup are applied to the mailbox database
when a recovery database restore is processing.