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You can use the VSS Restore Wizard or vxsnap utility to recover a storage group or single database in cases where a snapshot set is available and where there has been no hardware failure.
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Do not attempt to use the VSS Restore Wizard for recovery after hardware failure. Instead, refer to the special procedures for recovery after hardware failure. See About recovery after hardware failure. |
See the following additional information before you begin:
Before restoring an Exchange 2007 database in a Microsoft clustering environment, do the following:
Before restoring from a passive copy snapshot, additional steps are required.
If you have set up a recovery storage group (RSG) in Exchange 2007, you have the option to restore to the RSG rather than to the production volume, leaving the production volume intact. The RSG must be created before you begin the recovery. Follow the Microsoft instructions in creating the RSG. The database names in the recovery storage group must match those in the source storage group.