From Windows Backup, Restore Exchange Database

Hardware problems, limited disk space, sudden shutdown, and various other circumstances can corrupt or damage Exchange Server databases. Windows Server Backup can assist you rebuild the compromised Exchange database in any kind of scenario.

Using Eseutil command is another approach should the backup prove absent. This built-in command line utility from Microsoft can address Exchange server database corruption problems starting from Every current Exchange Server version will have this software installed. 

Repair for Exchange is an automatic tool you could attempt instead of these hand methods for Exchange recovery. It can assist in Exchange recovery even in cases of non-backup file or database restoration impossibility.

We shall first discuss in this blog restoring Exchange Database from Windows Backup in great depth then the application of Repair for Exchange for database recovery.

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Restore Exchange Database using Windows server backup

WSBExchange.exe is a plug-in for Windows Server Backup (WSB) made available by Microsoft Exchange. Apart from restoring Exchange data, the plug-in generates Exchange database backups depending on Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Using these Exchange-aware backups will help you to install the WSB capability on your PC.

WSBExchange.exe plug-in — a quick introduction

 Running as a Windows Server Backup tool, this WSB plug-in is a Microsoft Exchange Server Extension. Also known as WSB Exchange, it is automatically present on all of the mailbox servers, properly set for hand initialization. WSB is let by the plug-in to create Exchange-aware VSS backups. 

Proceeding forward, we will first enable WSB and then backup Exchange using it. We then will move on with Exchange data recovery from Windows Server Backup.

Windows Server Backup Enable Steps

 Run the PowerShell line below to enable Windows Server Backup.

  • Install Windows-Server Backup Feature

You can also accomplish this with the Windows Server GUI using the simple below steps:

  •  Launch Server Manager 
  • Click manage
  • Opening the Add Roles and Features wizard requires clicking Add Roles and Features.
  • Under Select Features, Click Features
  • On the plus side, under the feature list to install on the chosen server, tick the Windows Server Backup checkbox.  
  • Run the Windows Server Backup from Server Manager by heading to: Server Manager -> Tools upon activating of the Windows Server Backup.

WSB Backup for Exchange

  • Search Local Backup in the left pane within the main Windows Server Backup window.
  • Right-click Local Backup and subsequently select Backup Schedule first option. 
  • You will find a Backup Schedule Wizard there. 
  • Click Starting to Review the material then click Next.
  • Use Custom in Select Backup Configuration.
  • Click Next to carry on the wizard's advised actions.
  • Choose the items you wish to backup from the Select Items for Backup option.
  • Click Advanced Setting located at the Select Items Backup dialog box bottom. 
  • Click OK after setting VSS full backup.

Set the frequency to execute the backup, whether once or more than time, followed by the particular timings to run the backup in the fourth option of the Backup Wizard – Specify Backup Time.

Then select the disk you want to keep the Exchange Server backup on in the Select Destination Disk option.

You will therefore come across a dialog box noting the deletion of all the current data on the selected disk. Click Yes to proceed.

Check the settings in the last Confirmation option then click Finish.

This will finish the process of backuping Exchange Server databases. Run the following command to inquire about the backup's situation: 

Get-Mailbox Database - Status | Select Name,* backup

Extensive Exchange Server Data Recovery from Windows Backup

Now is the moment to recover Exchange database from the Windows backup after enabling the Windows Server Backup and collecting the Exchange data backup.

  •  Start Windows Server Backup here.
  •  Go for Local Backup.
  • From the left Action pane, choose Recover to run the Recovery wizard.
  • Select either of the two choices on the Recovery Wizard's Getting Started page:

server named Server Name: Should the data you are about to retrieve reside on the local server,

Should the data you desire to retrieve exist on another server or computer, another server—or backup kept elsewhere—should be sought for.

Press Next.

  • Click Next after selecting a specific date and time (as the recovery point) of the backup you are about to restore from the left pane's Select Backup Date option.
  • Next click on Next button after selecting Applications on the Select Recovery Type screen.
  • Your next visit will be the Select Application page. You fill find Exchange chosen by default in the Applications field.
  • Click View Details to obtain the backup's related application component link. Should the backup you are going to retrieve be the most recent one, you will notice Try not to roll-forward the application database checkbox.
  • By selecting this check box, WSB won't roll the database—that you want to restore—forward. It will carry out this work using the uncommitted transaction logs.

 Click NEXT.

  • Turning now to the page Specify Recovery Options, you will find two choices:
  • Get back to where you started. To restore Exchange data to its natural habitat.
  • Recover to still another place. To restore the contained files and the separate databases to a specific place, or a Recovery Database (RDB). Your original Exchange database can be recovered with the help of this Exchange recovery database.
  • The former will be in a filthy shutdown condition while restoring a database to another site. Once the restore procedure ends, you will have to use Eseutil.exe to put the database into a clean shutdown condition.
  • Look over and verify the recovery settings on the Conformation page. Click recover.
  • The Recovery Progress page lets you see the operation's development and standing.
  •  Click Close once the Recovery Operation ends.

 How can one find whether the backup restore operation went successfully?

Check the effective completion of the Exchange recovery process by following any of the items below:

  • Review the target directory of the backup to confirm the existence of restored data.
  • Review the backup logs on the server you started Windows Server Backup to confirm the job was executed successfully.
  • Viewer of Open Events and confirm the restore completion event logging in the Application Event Log.

Restored Exchange Database with Repair for Exchange

Restoring an Exchange Server database by hand can be rather time-consuming and expensive. Often, you have to go through a whole process merely to get one mailbox, so wasting time. They are also rather prone to mistakes. 

And your Exchange Server needs to be online if you want to restore a mailbox. Using an Exchange database recovery program would help one to overcome many other problems as well.  

Repair for Exchange is advised by experts to restore database in rather less time and without any data loss. These are some of the main reasons one would want this program instead of other automatic third-party recovery programs on the market:

  • Successful repairs of corrupt or damaged Exchange database (EDB) files
  •  provides a special scan alternative to retrieve mails from a corrupted database
  •  can simultaneously fix up four mailboxes at once.
  •  lets specify mailbox recovery priority for storing recovered mailboxes. 
  •  fixes even the deleted mailboxes from a corrupted Exchange server database
  •  Selected recovery of user mailboxes from a corrupted EDB file is made possible by the Exchange recovery tool.
  •  Recover mailboxes from every Exchange server variant between 5.5 and 2019.
  •  creates comprehensive log reports on the recovery procedure and lets one store them.

 Visit Repair's official website to learn more about this DataVare Exchange server recovery program or to make purchase.

Conclusion

There several ways to retrieve mailboxes from a compromised Exchange database. One often used method is with Windows Server Backup (WSB). It requires you to produce Exchange-aware Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) backups using WSBExchange.exe plug-in running as a service WSBExchange. 

 For this work other approaches include consulting Eseutil tool or a Recovery Database (RDB) are also quite helpful. Usually requiring time, these hand techniques are prone to mistakes. Third-party automated Exchange recovery software will help you finish the whole process in rather less time without any mistakes. 

Among the few tools on the market to handle this chore, Repair for Exchange comes highly recommended. Purchase this program now and start toward a hassle-free Exchange database recovery.