To answer your initial question, you can certainly use Windows Server Backup to backup running VSS compatible VMs. The Windows Server backup is very useful if you are simply trying to make a VSS aware copy of your virtual machine so you can restore the entire system + data backups to another host, or the same host.
VHD: This can be executed through VSS using Windows Server backup, DPM, Backuip Exec, or many other backup software products. This doesn't change, even when you're backing up the entire VHD. You'll want to do system state backups, file backups, etc. Data: The data within the VM needs to be backed up the same way you would a physical machine. If the EDB file you restored is different to the EDB file name you specified when creating the recovery database you’ll need to fix that first.Hello, You need to manage backup from the standpoint of: 1. Making a Restored Exchange Server 2016 Database Mountable Repeat the restore for the log files as well if necessary, then move on to making the recovered database mountable. Restore the files to the locations you specified when you created the recovery database earlier.Ĭonfirm your selections and click Recover to begin the restore. Note that if the database and logs are in separate folders then you’ll need to run two separate restore jobs to get them both. In a regular Exchange 2016 database recovery we would choose Applications here, but when working with recovery databases we select Files and Folders instead.įrom the tree view of available files to restore select the database and log files for the database you’re recovering. Select the date from which you want to restore the database and log files. Select the name of the server from the sets on the backup drive. Select the backup drive from the drop down list. The backup drive is attached to this server, so I choose Local drives for the location type. I am choosing to recover a backup stored on another location. In Windows Server Backup click on Recover to start a new recovery. However many others will use the recovery database approach, including Windows Server Backup which I am demonstrating here.
Some backup solutions do not use recovery databases at all, and will use their own utility to open the restored database file and extract the contents that you want to recovery. You should consult the documentation from your vendor and follow their guidance. The restoration process for Exchange 2016 databases will depend on the backup software that you’re using.
Restore an Exchange Server 2016 Database into a Recovery Database First we need to restore the database and transaction log files from backup. If you inspect the folder paths that you chose for the recovery database you’ll notice they are empty. If you know the EDB file name of the database you’ll be restoring use it now, but if you don’t know it or you need to change it later that’s okay.įor an explanation of the warning message that appears for restarting the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service read this article In the Exchange Management Shell use the New-MailboxDatabase cmdlet to create the recovery database. However I recommend you at least place the recovery database and log files in their own folders away from the active database files. The storage can be a volume that already hosts other databases, there is no particular need to use a dedicated volume for this purpose unless you need to keep it separate to ensure that the recovery database is excluded from your regular backups. Before you do this you should ensure that you have some storage available on the server to host the database and transaction log files that you will be restoring into the recovery database. To begin with we create the recovery database object itself. Creating a Recovery Database for Exchange Server 2016 In this article I will demonstrate the complete end to end procedure. Remove the recovery database when it is no longer required.
Restore a database backup into the recovery database.Create the recovery database on an Exchange 2016 server.To recover a mailbox or mailbox items for Exchange Server 2016 using a recovery database the following procedure is used: Using the recovery database will not have an impact on the the active copy of the mailbox database that is running, and a recovery database can be used to mount an Exchange Server 2016 mailbox database from any other server in the same organization. Recovery databases can only be accessed by administrators performing mailbox restores, they are not accessible by end users via Outlook or any other client application or device, and you will not be able to create new mailboxes on the recovery database. In Exchange Server 2016 a recovery database allows us to mount a copy of a regular mailbox database on an Exchange server for performing a restore of a mailbox or mailbox items.