Restoring an Exchange Server Database
Now, you know how to configure a backup job and verify that backups are indeed completed successfully, we can go to the next step, which includes executing the restore of an Exchange database.
Getting ready
In order to complete the following steps, you must have taken a backup following our preceding example.
How to do it...
Before technically explaining how a restore process is working, we need to draw your attention to the possible methodologies of restoring.
Exchange 2013 allows for two ways of restoring a full database:
Restore to original location, thereby overwriting existing database
Restore to alternate location, to allow for mounting into a recovery database
Performing a full Exchange 2013 database restore
In this exercise, we will walk you through the scenario of performing a full Exchange 2013 mailbox database restore.
As restoring to an alternate location is very common, that's exactly what we will walk you through:
From the Windows Server Backup tool...
