# Creating a Recovery Point for Exchange Database Block-Level Backups

Applies to: Exchange 2013 or a more recent version, in a DAG environment

Before you recover messages from an Exchange database block-level backup, you create recovery points from which you can recover individual messages.

Creating a recovery point initiates a job type called Create Recovery Point. After you create the job, you have the option to monitor the status of the job from a list of recovery points. The recovery point job has two states, In Progress and Ready, which functions as follows:

- In Progress: A dummy mount is created, and the corresponding logs are copied to a temporary location, and then replayed. The time that this phase takes to complete depends on the number of transaction logs that need to be replayed.

- Ready: You can recover messages from a block-level backup.

By default, each recovery point expires after one day (24 hours). If you keep a recovery point for an extended amount of time, verify that you have enough hardware resources or disk space to maintain that recovery point.

# Before You Begin

- Enable block-level backup for the subclient that contains the databases that you want to create recovery points for.

- Verify that the MediaAgent is prepared for recovering messages.

# Procedure

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Exchange.

   The Exchange page appears.

2. Click an Exchange database.

   The Exchange Database page appears.

3. On the Subclient tab, click the subclient that contains the databases that you want to create recovery points for.

   The subclient page appears.

4. At the top-right area of the page, click Restore > Restore messages.

   The Recovery points tab appears.

5. Click Create recovery point.

   The Create recovery point dialog box appears.

6. From the Subclient list, select the subclient that contains the databases that you want to create recovery points for.

7. Under Database, click the Browse button, select the databases you want to create recovery points for, and then click Add.

8. Under Restore job, select the date and time of the backup job you want to recover.

9. From the Select a MediaAgent list, select the MediaAgent that you want to perform the recovery operation.

10. Click Create.

## Results

On the Recovery points tab, you can see the new recovery point.

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