Therefore, it is necessary for Exchange administrator to keep a disaster recovery method which help them to recover mailbox from EDB File Exchange 2010 / 2013 when any issue or threat occur.The primary method of disaster management strategy is to have a regular backup of entire Exchange data.
This process is an important one and most of the administrators find it annoying to execute it.To help you out, this article will guide you and provide solution to restore / recover the Exchange mailbox data from .edb file in a simplified manner.
Firstly, we have to investigate the situation where we have to perform this Exchange database mailbox recovery.Reason to Restore / Recover Mailbox from EDB File Exchange 2010 / 2013There can be multiple causes or reason due to which users have to restore the Exchange mailbox from EDB file and one such common reason is the deletion (intentionally or accidentally) of entire Exchange mailbox.
When any users deleted the Exchange mailbox by mistake & didn’t retrieve before the retention period expire, then they have to recover the Exchange database.There may be other case in which Exchange administrator has to recover the data from EDB mailbox and besides this one need to recover the mailbox database or Exchange database file from server when it becomes in accessible due to malicious virus attack, dismounted or offline database, hard disk failure, etc….Pre-Requisites:To restore or recover mailbox from EDB file Exchange 2010 / 2013 you have to require these things given below:1.
Then, create the recovery database via Exchange PowerShell cmdletNew-MailboxDatabase -Server mail01 -Name Recovery DB01 -Recovery -EdbFilePath “E:\EXDB12\Exchange Server\EXDB\File\EXDB.edb” -LogFolderPath “E:\EXDB\Exchange Server\EXDB\Logs”5.
Execute the Exchange PowerShell command:Get-MailboxStatistics Database RecoveryDB01 | ft -auto7.