I need to restore the Contacts folder for a user. I will restore it to an admin mailbox and then email the required contact to the user from there. Pretty straightforward.
1) Create a recovery DB. The recovery DB is called “RDB”. I store it on the D: drive in a folder called “Recovery”.
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New-MailboxDatabase -Recovery -Name RDB -Server rak1exch01 -LogFolderPath D:\Recovery -EdbFilePath D:\Recovery\RDB.edb |
2) Open Services and restart the Exchange Information Store service.
3) Set the recovery DB as over-writeable.
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Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity RDB -AllowFileRestore $true |
4) I backup using DPM/ Azure Backup Server. Restore as per here.
5) Make a restore request from the recovery DB for the Contacts folder. I will restore this to a folder called Recovery in the administrator user. The switches below are for that:
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New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase RDB -SourceStoreMailbox "Sasidharan, Rakhesh" -TargetMailbox administrator -TargetRootFolder Recovery -AllowLegacyDNMismatch -SourceRootFolder Contacts |
The -AllowLegacyDNMismatch is required because I am restoring to a different mailbox.
6) Keep an eye on the progress via the Get-MailboxRestoreRequest cmdlet. You can get stats this way if required:
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Get-MailboxRestoreRequest | Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics | fl percentcomplete,itemstransferred,*count* |
That’s it!
If I hadn’t restored to a recovery DB via DPM and brought it to a cleanly shutdown state I can follow instructions along these lines to do that.