Restoring mailboxes directly into Exchange Server with BackupAssist Jason Schultz, Lead Developer BackupAssist
Mailbox restores Good morning to all This presentation will cover: Introduction to Mailbox restore Some basic Mailbox restore scenarios Relevant mailbox backup options Q&A
Mailbox restores with the BackupAssist Restore Console Advanced brick level restore options Convenient and flexible Restore directly from backups into your Exchange server mailboxes Automatically from backup to pst to server Also compatible with your existing manual restore processes using Outlook Assisted manual restores
Mailbox restores with the BackupAssist Restore Console Suitable for multiple restore scenarios Complete mailbox recovery or Flexible mailbox migration Find and restore accidentally deleted items Compatible with standalone mailbox jobs and mailbox backup in all other jobs: Imaging, Ntbackup File Replication, Zip, Rsync
Restore scenarios Complete mailbox migration or restore Standalone job, using BARC Search for missing email(s) Zip job, using BARC and Outlook Find emails across multiple mailboxes Zip job, using BARC and Outlook/OWA
Complete mailbox migration or restore
Complete mailbox migration/restore Confirm the Restore to locations are correct
Complete mailbox migration/restore If incorrect, or you want to restore to a different mailbox, choose Configure restore and select:
Complete mailbox migration/restore For example: after choosing target mailbox user4 on Original location : For migration, select Alternate server, then push Select, mailbox selection as above
Search for missing email(s) We know the missing email for the admin mailbox was in Feb Note that these pst files are in a zip backup, as well as on the network path (mailbox dir)
Search for missing email(s) We need to search for the exact item in Outlook, so lets export the relevant psts from the backup to a local dir
Search for missing email(s) And here s our pst file, ready to be opened in Outlook!
Find emails across multiple mailboxes We need the audit trail for a complex topic, and know the emails could be in multiple mailboxes
Find emails across multiple mailboxes Configure the restore to push the items into a new mailbox created for this purpose
Find emails across multiple mailboxes Once exported, you can either: Connect directly to the new mailbox using Outlook or OWA and browse/search, or Backup that mailbox to PST and browse at leisure in Outlook
Best practices for restore Use the BARC to: extract items from multiple periods directly to the original mailbox, a new mailbox or even a mailbox on a different server retrieve the required pst files for a date range, even from within system backups Use Outlook or OWA to: search, work with or to recover individual items
Backup grouping method How does the grouping method affect restores?
Grouping method Smaller fewer edits/items means: less chance of corruption quicker search for known date big mailboxes won t overflow so quickly Bigger wider date range per pst means: fewer files to manage easier to search in Outlook (can only search one PST at a time), especially if unsure of the date
Backup recommendations Use the smallest grouping possible, for data security Use the always backup option If you will need to search across large time periods often, create a 2 nd job to backup with a larger grouping period But only do this if you have enough backup space and the mailboxes are small enough not to overflow
Summary The BackupAssist Exchange Mailbox Add-on provides a flexible brick-level solution for backup and restore We ve seen how to: use the BackupAssist Restore Console to perform common restore scenarios with Microsoft Exchange configure backup options to maximise restore capabilities
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