Example of restoring from an Exchange 2007 passive copy


Example of restoring from an Exchange 2007 passive copy
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The following example illustrates a Point in Time recovery from a snapshot of a passive copy of an Exchange storage group, SG1, that contains two databases, DB1 and DB2, on an Exchange server, TestExch.

From the Exchange Management Shell, run the Dismount-Database cmdlet on the DB1 and DB2 databases.
```
Dismount-database -Identity TestExch\SG1\DB1
Dismount-database -Identity TestExch\SG1\DB2
```

Run the Restore-StorageGroupCopy cmdlet on the SG1 storage group.

Restore-StorageGroupCopy -Identity TestExch\SG1 
-ReplaceLocations

Run the Mount-Database cmdlet on the DB1 and DB2 databases.

Mount-database -Identity TestExch\SG1\DB1
Mount-database -Identity TestExch\SG1\DB2

Perform a vxsnap refresh.
```
vxsnap refresh
```

Perform the VSS restore operation using the snapshot of the passive copy.

vxsnap -x snapdata.xml restore RestoreType=PIT 
writer="Microsoft Exchange Writer"

Note:

For this example, assume that the snapshot of the passive copy was performed with the following command:

vxsnap -x snapdata.xml create writer="Microsoft Exchange Writer Replica" component=SG1 backupType=COPY -E -O

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