To recover using an Exchange 2007 passive copy snapshot, you follow this process:

• Use the Microsoft Exchange Management Shell to execute the following cmdlets:

  • Dismount-Database

  • Restore-StorageGroupCopy

    The LCR copy is automatically disabled when running the Restore-StorageGroupCopy cmdlet. You can enable it again once all recovery steps are complete.

  • Mount-Database

  Refer to the Microsoft Exchange documentation for additional information on Microsoft Exchange Management Shell and cmdlets.

  An example of how to use these cmdlets is available.

  See Example of restoring from an Exchange 2007 passive copy.

• Execute the Refresh command from the VEA or command line.

• In a Microsoft clustering environment (MSCS or Failover Clustering), ensure that you dismount the stores and set them for overwrite by restore. In a VCS or SFW environments, SFW attempts to dismount the stores before beginning the restore operation. If SFW fails to dismount the stores, dismount them manually.

• If a snapshot schedule exists for the active storage group, it is now invalid, and you must delete it before beginning the restore operation.

• Use either the VEA wizard or the vxsnap CLI utility with the active writer (Microsoft Exchange Writer) to restore the passive copy snapshot. See the following topics:

  • See Recovery for Exchange 2007 using the VSS Restore Wizard.

  • See Recovery for Exchange 2007 using the vxsnap utility.