How to Restore Mailbox from Recovery Database Exchange 2013

One of the major platforms that help organizations to work collaboratively is Exchange Server. It is helpful in storing and maintaining information like contacts, emails, journals, calendars, task, etc. in Exchange database. Nevertheless, it is possible the file of Exchange i.e. EDB gets corrupt or damaged suddenly due to various reasons. Once it is happen the files become inaccessible and ultimately leads to an obstruction in between the work. To rectify issues like this it becomes necessary to restore the inaccessible mailboxes. In the upcoming section, we will discuss the procedure of restoring mailbox from recovery database in Exchange 2013 along with an expert solution.

Method to Recover Mailboxes from Exchange 2013 Database Restored from Backup

Recover mailboxes from the Serve of Exchange database, which has been retrieved from backup:

• Firstly, you need to provide the location of the folder, where you want restore the database of Exchange and log files. 
• After this, you need to verify the condition of the recovered database file to know that whether it is in the state of Clean Shutdown/Dirty Shutdown. To perform this, type in the command as written below:

Dirty Shutdown– In case the Exchange database is in a dirty shutdown condition, you will have to carry out ‘soft recovery’ and make it well. If it does not work, then you need to perform ‘hard recovery.’

Clean Shutdown– If this is the case, then you are not required to perform anything and can continue the subsequent step.

• In this step, you have to generate ‘Recovery Database’ in Exchange Server version 2013 in order to restore mailbox from recovery database Exchange 2013. This is a type of database, which allows you to mount database from backup. The recovered database should be given a exclusive name and use the location for the LogFolderPath’ parameter. To make Recovery Database, type in the following command:

• Once the Recovery Database has been created, you should confirm that whether the database is in an accessible state or not. For this use this command:

• Then, mount the database by the following command: Mount-Database RDB01 –Verbose
• Once the database has been mounted, verify it with the below mentioned command: 

• Now, the mailbox statistics of the restored database should be verified by the following commands:
  

This command will locate all the mailboxes available in the Recovery Database

This command will find the particular mailbox from Recovery Database 

• Then, to restore mailboxes you need to use Exchange PowerShell commands. Particular commands helps in the restoring of the mailbox via GUID, restoring the complete mailbox, restoring the source mailbox to the mailbox of another user, & restoring the mailbox email in an individual folder in the mailbox of user.
• After this, check the status of the restored mailbox with this command: 

• In the final step, delete the ‘Completed’ mailbox Restore via PowerShell command:

As to perform all these above-mentioned steps to restore mailbox from recovery database Exchange 2013, have to devote much and perform each step carefully. Therefore, it is recommended to opt for a trouble free approach.

Automated Solution to Restore mailbox from Exchange 2013

One of the best utility to perform the recovery of mailboxes from Exchange Server 2013 is EDB to PST Converter. The tool repairs both Private & Public Folders of Exchange and convert it to PST format. It can also recover the deleted mails form Exchange EDB mailboxes. Moreover, the software maintains the hierarchy of the folder throughout the process and it is compatible with all the versions of Windows Operating system. Users can recover Exchange Mailboxes to Live Exchange Server and Microsoft Outlook.

Conclusion

Sometimes an administrative of a business that uses MS Exchange Server 2013 faces some issues with Exchange. Therefore, in the above blog, we have discussed the process for restoring mailbox from recovery database in exchange 2013. Apart from manual approach, we have also learned a trouble free method to perform Exchange data recovery easily.