Individual mailbox recovery

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Data Protection for Exchange Server backs up at the database level, and also restores individual items from the database backup.

Backing up Exchange servers at the mailbox item-level can cause the following issues:
  • Insufficient scalability as item-level backups that are run hourly on each day of the week still prove to be an inadequate solution.
  • More resource strain is added to the production servers.
  • Since database backups are still done, the Exchange data is duplicated as item-level backups. The same data is backed up a second time.
To address these issues, Microsoft™ provides these features in Exchange:
  • Deleted Item Restore can be configured to keep items within the Exchange Server databases, even after they are deleted. This option enables the items to be restored later.
  • Deleted Mailbox Restore can be configured to keep mailboxes within the Exchange Server databases, even after they are deleted. This option enables the items to be restored or reconnected later.
  • The recovery database enables a database to be restored to a special database. Wizards and tools are provided by Exchange to extract data from this database. This process can be done without disrupting the production servers.