Before you begin this task, assure that the following prerequisites are complete:
Rapid Recovery lets you restore mail items without leaving the interface. The mail items exist in the Exchange database within the recovery point of a protected Exchange Server machine, which you can open using the Open Exchange Databases Wizard.
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NOTE: The amount of time it takes for Rapid Recovery to open the Exchange database depends on the size of the database. |
To restore an item from the open database, see Restoring a mail item in Rapid Recovery.
Before you begin this task, assure that you have met the prerequisites for completing a mail restore. For more information, seeMail Restore prerequisites.
The Rapid Recovery Mail Restore feature lets you restore a mailbox, folder, or item — such as a message, calendar event, or contact — from the data store of a protected Exchange Server machine. You can restore your selection to a recovery folder, to the original source, or to one or more PST files. To restore a mail item from the Rapid Recovery Core Console, complete the following steps.
Option | Description |
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Restore to the recovery folder |
Recovers the selected items (including the folder hierarchy) to a recovery folder in an online mailbox of your choice. Go to step 4. |
Restore to the original location |
Directs the selected item (including the folder hierarchy) to the email box in the online data store in which it originally resided. Go to step 5. |
Restore to the PST file |
Saves the selected items (including the folder hierarchy) by creating a Personal Storage Table (PST) file or writing to an existing PST file. Go to step 6. |
Restore to the PST file(s) (separate file for each mailbox) |
Saves each mailbox as a Personal Storage Table (PST) file. Go to step 6. |
Optionally, select Show advanced options, to further customize the restore with the following options:
Option | Description |
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Error handling | Determines the way to address and manage any errors that may occur during the restore process. Select one of the following options:
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Restore deleted objects | For an Exchange 2010, 2013, and 2016 database, restores items that were permanently deleted.
For an Exchange 2007 database, restores strikethrough items from the current folder. |
Restore email rules | Restores any rules the user had in place at the time that the data was backed up. |
Optionally, select Show advanced options, to further customize the restore with the following options:
Option | Description | ||
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Error handling | Determines the way to address and manage any errors that may occur during the restore process. Select one of the following options:
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Restore deleted objects | For an Exchange 2010, 2013, and 2016 database, restores items that were permanently deleted.
For an Exchange 2007 database, restores strikethrough items from the current folder. | ||
Restore email rules | Restores any rules the user had in place at the time that the data was backed up. | ||
Restore user permissions |
Restores the custom permissions set for a public folder.
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NOTE: Do not assign the overflow location to the same disk as the primary location. |
Optionally, select Show advanced options, to further customize the restore with the following options:
Option | Description |
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Error handling | Determines the way to address and manage any errors that may occur during the restore process. Select one of the following options:
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Restore deleted objects | For an Exchange 2010, 2013, and 2016 database, restores items that were permanently deleted.
For an Exchange 2007 database, restores strikethrough items from the current folder. |
When operating as expected, servers perform the tasks for which they are configured. If a server protected in your Rapid Recovery Core suffers a catastrophic failure that renders the server inoperable, administrators must take immediate action to restore the full functionality of that machine.
In such cases, especially when the data loss includes a system volume, you can use Rapid Recovery to perform a bare metal restore (BMR) for your protected machines. BMR is a process that restores the full software configuration for a specific system. It uses the term “bare metal” because the restore operation recovers not only the data from the server, but also reformats the hard drive and reinstalls the operating system and all software applications.
Rapid Recovery Core lets you perform bare metal restore for protected Windows or Linux machines. The protected system can be restored to similar or dissimilar hardware.
This section describes how to restore a recovery point from a protected machine to bare metal using similar or dissimilar hardware. Most of the tasks for a BMR are performed from the Restore Machine Wizard. When restoring a Linux machine to bare metal, you can also accomplish several tasks from the command line. These procedures are also included in this section.
Topics include:
Understanding boot CD creation for Windows machines
Performing a bare metal restore using the Restore Machine Wizard
Using the Universal Recovery Console for a BMR
Bare metal restore is the process of restoring all content from a specific computer system — data, applications, user accounts, and the operating system — from a recovery point.
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NOTE: Before performing bare metal restore, ensure you have a healthy hardware system with which to replace the failed system. |
BMR is used not only in disaster recovery scenarios, but also to migrate data when upgrading or replacing servers. To perform a BMR, Rapid Recovery uses an ISO image as a boot disk, which lets you connect the BMR target machine with the Rapid Recovery Core using a restore interface called the Universal Recovery Console.
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NOTE: An ISO image is a single archive that contains data for every sector of a disk, including the disk file system. ISO images are saved in ISO-9660 format, set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The file format uses the .ISO file extension. |
For more flexibility, Rapid Recovery supports BMR both to similar and dissimilar hardware. Examples of restoring to similar hardware include replacing the hard drive only of the existing system, or swapping out a failed server with an identical machine. An example of restoring to dissimilar hardware is the case where you replace the failed system with a server produced by a different manufacturer or with a different configuration.
The process of performing a BMR includes several separate procedures. At the top level, it involves creating or downloading a bootable ISO image; transmitting that image to an accessible location (removable media, network location, or hypervisor); starting up the BMR target server from the boot image; connecting it to the recovery console instance; mapping volumes; initiating the recovery; and then monitoring the restore progress. Once the bare metal restore is complete, you can continue with the task of loading the operating system and the software applications on the restored server, followed by establishing unique settings required for your configuration.
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NOTE: Bare metal restore is supported for virtual machines (VMs) as well as for physical machines. However, to be practical, if the machine you want to replace is a VM, it is generally quicker and easier to perform virtual export from a recovery point to achieve the same goal. For more information on performing a VM export, see Exporting to virtual machines using Rapid Recovery. |
Rapid Recovery supports BMR for both Windows and Linux machines using the Restore Machine wizard from the Rapid Recovery Core Console. Some steps differ. For a list of general BMR steps, differentiated for Windows and Linux restores, see Differences in bare metal restore for Windows and Linux machines.
For Linux, you can also accomplish many tasks required for BMR from the command line. If that is your preference, both approaches are included in this User Guide when applicable.
This section includes conceptual topics throughout, including prerequisites and information about boot ISO images used for BMR for Windows and Linux machines. Before performing any BMR, consider requirements as described in Prerequisites for performing a bare metal restore for Windows or Linux machines.
An ISO image is a single archive that contains data for every sector of a disk, including the disk file system. The topic Performing a bare metal restore using the Restore Machine Wizard describes the process to start a BMR from the wizard in the Core Console. Following that process, and referring to other topics for additional information, users can perform a BMR from the Restore Machine Wizard for both Windows and Linux machines.
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