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How To Restore Exchange 2003 Database To Recovery Storage Group


Recovery Storage Group is basically one of the possible ways of mounting mailbox database to the same Server as the original copy of the mailbox only. Users keen to find out how to restore Exchange 2003 database to Recovery Storage Group are recommended to go through the following segment to know more about it, its working, and requirement. The respective facility has been offered under Exchange 2003 Server edition which eliminates the requirement of setting up a different recovery performing system for recovering data.

Complete Description of Exchange Storage Group

Recovery Storage Group is basically one of the possible ways of mounting mailbox database to the same Server as the original copy of the mailbox only. Users keen to find out how to restore Exchange 2003 database to Recovery Storage Group are recommended to go through the following segment to know more about it, its working, and requirement. The respective facility has been offered under Exchange 2003 Server edition which eliminates the requirement of setting up a different recovery performing system for recovering data.

Mostly, the need to recover data from an Exchange Server mailbox store is the first approach users make when the particular data is unavailable to them due to any possible reason or cause. Although, being offered from a renowned banner like Microsoft makes the procedure trustworthy in itself but still it has been observed built in procedures lack some or the other facility which degrades their worth.

Overview of Recovery Storage Group

In the older versions of Exchange servers like 2003, administrator must configure the separate Microsoft AD (Active Directory) service on a recovery server if user wants to mount a different copy of production Exchange server database. A separate computer is not needed in the Exchange server 2003 Recovery Storage Group features when user wants to restore mailbox data from mailbox store.

The state of the Active Directory Topology of the Exchange server must be in a same state when the copy of the mailbox database was made. It means the mailboxes that user want to recover must not be deleted or removed from the system or transferred to the different server or database.

User should use the Recovery Storage Group when following conditions are true

Logical information within Active Directory regarding storage group as well as its mailbox is kept intact and unaltered.

In case you need to restore data from an individual mailbox, group of database, or single database, that are maintained within one storage group. For instance; you can make use of Recovery Storage Group facility for recovering items that got deleted or removed from a certain user mailbox or, can repair an alternative database's copy while the other copy of it is under production.

If user already has Recovery Storage Group then follow the simple manual steps to recover mailbox data and if user doesn't have Recovery Storage Group, then user has to create RSG at very first and then follow manual steps to restore mailbox data to RSG.

Creation of the Recovery Storage Group

Following steps are carried out to create a Recovery Storage Group

Restore a Mailbox Store to the Recovery Storage Group

User can restore mailbox store to RSG by either following two given below steps

Lets discuss about the second point i.e. manually copy database files to the Exchange server.

Manually Copy Database Files to a Recovery Storage Group

While copying mailbox store to Recovery Storage Group, sometimes Exchange mailbox store might be corrupted or damaged because of server errors like virus attacks or other internal server errors. In this situation user has a better choice i.e. Exchange database recovery software which used to recover damaged or corrupted database file(EDB) data into healthy database or into different Exchange server. It recovers mailbox data without making changes to the original file structure in a safe and secure way.