Storage Foundation 8.0 Quick Recovery Solutions Guide for Microsoft Exchange - Windows
- Introducing Quick Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
- Planning a Quick Recovery snapshot solution for Exchange
- System requirements
- Methods of implementing Quick Recovery snapshots
- Planning your Quick Recovery solution
- Backup types for snapshot sets
- About logs
- Recommendations and best practices
- Configuring Exchange for Quick Recovery snapshots
- Implementing Exchange snapshot sets with the configuration wizard
- About the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard
- Tasks for implementing snapshot sets with the configuration wizard
- Reviewing the prerequisites
- Scheduling Exchange snapshot sets
- System Selection panel details
- Instance Selection panel details
- Mount Details panel details
- Synchronizing Schedules panel details
- Template Selection panel details
- Number of Snapshot Sets panel details
- Snapshot Volume Assignment panel details
- Snapshot Schedule panel details
- Specifying snapshot schedule details
- Summary panel details
- Template Implementation panel
- Administering or troubleshooting scheduled snapshots
- Scheduling or creating an individual snapshot set for Exchange
- Maintaining or troubleshooting snapshots
- Recovering Exchange mailbox databases
- About recovery using Quick Recovery snapshots
- Tasks for recovery using Quick Recovery snapshots
- Prerequisites for recovery
- Recovery using an Exchange 2010 passive copy snapshot in a Database Availability Group (DAG)
- Recovery for Exchange 2010 using the VSS Restore Wizard
- Recovery for Exchange 2010 using the vxsnap utility
- Post-recovery steps
- Recovering after hardware failure
- About recovery after hardware failure
- Tasks for recovering after hardware failure
- Reviewing the prerequisites
- Reviewing the sample configuration for Exchange 2010
- Scenario I: Database and transaction logs volumes are missing
- Identifying the missing volumes (Scenario I)
- Deleting missing volumes from Storage Foundation
- Replacing hardware and adding disks to the dynamic disk group
- Changing the drive letter or mount points of the snapshot volumes
- Restoring the Exchange 2010 mailbox database to the point in time
- Refreshing the snapshot set (Scenario I)
- Scenario II: Database volumes missing, transaction logs are available
- Identifying the missing volumes (Scenario II)
- Deleting missing volumes from Storage Foundation
- Replacing hardware and adding disks to the dynamic disk group
- Changing the drive letter or mount points of the snapshot volumes
- Restoring the Exchange 2010 mailbox database to the point in time
- Recovering the Exchange 2010 mailbox database to the point of failure
- Refreshing the snapshot set (Scenario II)
- Refreshing the snapshot set
- Refreshing the snapshot set on the current disks
- Moving the production volumes to different disks and refreshing the snapshot set
- Reattaching healthy snapshot volumes
- Clearing the snapshot association for volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned
- Adding mirrors to volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned
- Creating snapshot mirrors of volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned
- Creating the new snapshot set
- Vxsnap utility command line reference for Exchange
Moving the production volumes to different disks and refreshing the snapshot set
During the process of refreshing the snapshot set any volumes that were originally snapshot volumes of missing production volumes will become master (production) volumes. These volumes currently reside on the disks on which the original snapshot volumes were created.
Perform the following tasks to move the master (production) volumes to different disks:
Snap back the snapshot transaction logs volumes if you recovered using a roll-forward recovery to the point of failure.
Additionally, snap back the snapshot volumes of any databases that were not affected by the disk failure (and thus still have snapshot volumes associated with them).
Snap clear each volume in the snapshot set whose drive letter or mount point was reassigned prior to the restore process. The snap clear removes the association of the snapshot volume with the original production volume.
See Clearing the snapshot association for volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned.
Add a mirror to each volume in the snapshot set whose drive letter or mount point was reassigned prior to the restore process. For each new mirror (plex), choose the disks where you want the production volumes to reside.
See Adding mirrors to volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned.
Prepare each of the new mirror volumes and convert an existing mirror into a snap plex. Choose the mirror that was the snapshot volume of the failed production volume as the new snapshot mirror (snap plex).
See Creating snapshot mirrors of volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned.
Use the vxsnap create command to create a new snapshot set of all the volumes in the mailbox database.