Creating a Recovery Database in Exchange 2010

Create a Recovery Database (RDB) in Exchange 2010.

1.  Create a log drive and Database folders on the Mailbox server on which you are creating the Recovery database, below are the paths where logs and Mailbox database (.Edb) files are stored.

Ø  Log Drive Path which we have created for RDB for Example: “D:\LOGS\DB_RDB”

Ø  Mailbox Database Path which we have created for RDB for Example:

“D:\MailboxDatabases\DB_RDB”

2. You cannot create a recovery database using the Exchange Management Console. use Exchange Management Shell, The following command will create the RDB

New-MailboxDatabase -Recovery -Name DB_RDB -Server IND00EX001 -EdbFilePath "D:\MailboxDatabase\DB_RDB" -LogFolderPath "D:\Logs\DB_RDB”

3. Run the above command on Exchange Management shell.

4. Now the Recovery database is created,  verify the same in Exchange Management console,

5.The database will be in dismounted state as soon as its created,

6. Next we create our restore job from backup server,

Regards,

Kiran