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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide
  3. Performing restores of Exchange Server, mailboxes, and public folders
  4. About restoring Exchange snapshot backups
  5. Performing a snapshot restore of an Exchange standalone server
Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide

Performing a snapshot restore of an Exchange standalone server

To perform a snapshot restore of an Exchange standalone server

  1. Dismount all Exchange databases that you want to restore.

    Or, when you perform the restore, click the Dismount database prior to restore option.

  2. Open the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.
  3. Click File > Select Files and Folders to Restore > from Normal Backup.
  4. Select File > Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type.
  5. In the Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type dialog box, provide the following information:
    • The server that performed the restore.

    • For the policy type, select MS-Exchange-Server.

  6. From the NetBackup History pane, click the backup image that contains the objects you want to restore as follows:

    • The last full backup or user-directed backup

    • The last full backup and all subsequent differential backups

    • The last full backup and the last cumulative backup

  7. In the All Folders pane, select the objects you want to restore, as follows:

    • The Microsoft Information Store.

      Click the checkbox next to the computer name or the Microsoft Information Store.

    • Databases.

      Expand the Microsoft Information Store node. Then select the database(s) and log files you want to restore.

    The following figure shows a restore of Exchange 2010.
  8. Click Actions > Restore.
  9. Click the Microsoft Exchange tab.

  10. Click Start Restore.

More Information

Manually mounting an Exchange database after a restore

Options for Exchange snapshot restores

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