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:
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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.
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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
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Enable block-level backup for the subclient that contains the databases that you want to create recovery points for.
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Verify that the MediaAgent is prepared for recovering messages.
Procedure
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From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Exchange.
The Exchange page appears.
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Click an Exchange database.
The Exchange Database page appears.
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On the Subclient tab, click the subclient that contains the databases that you want to create recovery points for.
The subclient page appears.
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At the top-right area of the page, click Restore > Restore messages.
The Recovery points tab appears.
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Click Create recovery point.
The Create recovery point dialog box appears.
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From the Subclient list, select the subclient that contains the databases that you want to create recovery points for.
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Under Database, click the Browse button, select the databases you want to create recovery points for, and then click Add.
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Under Restore job, select the date and time of the backup job you want to recover.
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From the Select a MediaAgent list, select the MediaAgent that you want to perform the recovery operation.
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Click Create.
Results
On the Recovery points tab, you can see the new recovery point.