Recovering mailboxes, public folders, and their contents to the Exchange server

User mailboxes, public folders, and their contents can be recovered only if they have the associated user accounts in the Active Directory, and if these user accounts are enabled. In this case, the recovery task result will be "Succeeded". Mailboxes that have no matching user accounts in the Active Directory are skipped during recovery. If some mailboxes are skipped, the recovery task result will be "Succeeded with warnings". If all mailboxes are skipped, the recovery task result will be "Failed".

If the mailboxes being recovered already exist on the current Exchange server, the recovery will proceed exactly to these mailboxes. The mailboxes that are missing on the current Exchange server, but exist on a different Exchange server within the current Exchange organization will be skipped during recovery. To recover such mailboxes, you should connect the console to the Exchange server hosting these mailboxes and start the mailbox recovery on this server.

If the mailboxes are missing within the current Exchange organization, you should specify the mailbox database where the missing mailboxes will be created (see later in this section).

Note for resource mailboxes: Shared, room, and equipment mailboxes can be recovered only if their associated Active Directory user accounts are disabled.

Note for system mailboxes: Discovery and Arbitration mailboxes are skipped during recovery.

To set up the mailbox recovery, specify the appropriate settings as follows.

Overwriting

Choose what Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 should do if it finds that the target mailbox has items (e-mails, calendar events, contacts, tasks, etc.) with the same ID as those in the backup:

• Overwrite existing items - this is the default setting that fits most situations.

  Note: If you recover the same items more than once, each subsequent recovery duplicates the items because original item IDs will change after the overwriting.

• Do not overwrite existing items - this setting will let you retain the changes made to the items after the backup had been created.

Database to re-create any missing mailboxes

If the mailboxes being recovered are missing within the current Exchange organization, specify the mailbox database (in the current Exchange server) where the new mailboxes will be created. The newly created mailboxes will be properly initialized and recovery will be performed to these mailboxes. Mailboxes will also be re-created when recovering mailbox contents.

Note: Automatic mailbox re-creation is not supported for Exchange 2003. To recover missing mailboxes in Exchange 2003, re-create them manually and connect to these mailboxes using Outlook. After that, perform the recovery.