Recovery Database Exchange 2010

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I ran the ESEUTIl against the database and it showed the state of Dirty shutdown.

I managed to mount it as well as view items on each mailbox using powershell.
I thought if it is in shutdown state it will not mount.

I alos get confused after restoring the database, it will keep the same name as the exiting one in production, so now when I enter a powershell query how do I know if the results came from the restored database or the existing one ?

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in your case MB1.edb is the same name as the database file xxx.edb you are restoring ?

yes correct

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Name Server Recovery ReplicationType
RecoveryDB MyExchangeservname True None

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but if you create a recovery DB with the same name as the one you are restoring, then after you mount it, you will end up with 2 Databases with the same name in exchange console, if exchange allows that at the first place.

I am not planning to overwrite the Database in production. I want to restore a database then mount it and restore few items from a user mailbox.

However I can agree with you. If I go ahead and try to mount the RecoveryDB I created , I might get an error that it's not known by Active Directory.

Any clearance on that will be very much helpful

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I just check the RecoveryDB I created through powershell and it is showing as Dismounted in EMC.
I wonder now if I do a restore of the database that has different name than the RecoveryDB, over the RecoveryDB will work ?

example: the database to restore is MBDB01

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http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/exchange-server-2010-backup-databases-and-restore-rdb

on this link , the original database that is to be restored(db1) has different name than the Recovery database (RDB)

The name of the database file is not important as long as you restore it to a different location than the live database.

For Example:

I got a live database name DB01 with the db file located in e:\mailstore\db01.edb

i restore a version of this database to e:\restore\db01.edb

Now i create a RecoveryDB with the command

New-MailboxDatabase -Recovery -Name RecoveryDB -Server Exchang02 -EdbFilePath "E:\restore\db01.edb" -LogFolderPath "E:\restore"

after creation i can now mount that database with the mount-db command

Now i got two databases with the same db file name, in different folder location with different names in exchange:

Exchangename: db file: folder:

DB01 DB01.edb e:\mailstore\
RecoverDB DB01.edb e:\restore\

Hope this clears it a bit up.

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Can you create a Recovery database before your restore the edb file?

Netbackup 7.5 seems like you will have to give it the location and name of the Recovery database you previously created in order to restore.

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