Exchange 2013 Database Recovery
Database Recovery Steps
Step 1: Provide backup folder path
Provide the folder path location to the backup team where the database and log file needs to restore.
Note
Make sure you have enough free disk space on the restored location
Step 2: Verify database health
Verify the database health status after the restoration of the database file. Run the following command to verify the status
eseutil.exe /mh E:\Recovery\RDB.edb | select-string "State:", "Log Required"
 Caution |
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| If the database is Clean Shutdown move to next step. In case if it is dirty shutdown perform the soft recovery and if it fails to move to hard recovery |
Step 3: Create a Recovery database
Create a Recovery database using the following commands
New-MailboxDatabase -Recovery RDB01 -Server MBX01 -EdbFilePath E:\Recovery\RDB.edb
Step 5: Verify Database state
Verify the database is in a mounted state
Get-MailboxDatabase RDB01 -status | fl Name, Mounted
Step 6: Mount the database
Mount the database by executing the following command.
Mount-Database RDB01 –Verbose
Step 7 : Verify the database Status
After the database is mounted we must verify the database status using the next command.
Get-MailboxDatabase RDB01 -status | fl Name, Mounted
Step 8: Verify the mailbox statistics
At step 8 we must verify the mailbox statistics of the restored database by executing the following commands.
- To find all mailbox in the recovery database
Get-mailboxstatistics -database RDB01
- To find specific mailbox w.r.t to user account or GUID
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database RecoveryDB | ?{$_.DisplayName -like 'Raji*'} | fl DisplayName,MailboxGuid,DisconnectDate
Step 9: Restore the mailbox
Restoring them using the following Exchange PowerShell command based upon your requirement
- Restoring the complete user mailbox
New-mailboxrestorerequest –sourcedatabase “RDB01” –sourcestoremailbox “2007u1” –targetmailbox “2007u1@aricent.com"
- Restoring the mailbox using guid
New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase “RDB01” -SourceStoreMailbox 4a1d2118-b8cc-456c-9fd9-cd9af1f549d0 -TargetMailbox Raji
- Restoring the source mailbox to different user mailbox
New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase “RDB01” -SourceStoreMailbox 'Raji' -TargetMailbox Subramanian -TargetRootFolder Restore -AllowLegacyDNMismatch
- Restoring the mailbox email in a seperate folder (Restore) on the user mailbox
New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase “RDB01” -SourceStoreMailbox 'Raji' -TargetMailbox 'Raji' -TargetRootFolder Restore -IncludeFolders '#Inbox#/#Test#/*' -AllowLegacyDNMismatch
Step 10: Check the status of mailbox restoration
Check the status of mailbox restoration when completed check in the user mailbox on all restored emails.
Get-MailboxRestoreRequest
Step 11: Remove the completed mailbox restore
Remove the completed mailbox restore using the following PowerShell command
Get-MailboxRestoreRequest -status Completed | Remove-MailboxRestoreRequest Reference URL