MS Exchange Backup and Restore

Before you back up MS Exchange servers, make sure that your system configuration observes two conditions:

1. The firewall must allow Handy Backup to access local area network and connect to the MS Exchange servers.
2. Handy Backup must be run under a user account that has Microsoft Windows server operating systems Backup and Restore privileges.

To perform backup of MS Exchange Server, follow these steps:

1. Launch the New Task Wizard.
2. Select Backup Task, and then click Next.
3. Click Add to open the shortcut menu. The list of available for backup items will appear.
   
4. Select MS Exchange.
5. Expand the tree panel to see the list of MS Exchange servers that are currently available for backup. To exclude one or several folders from the backup set, uncheck the respective boxes.
   

All Exchange servers have a mailbox store and a public folder store. Mailbox stores are used to hold private data, whereas public folder stores contain public and shared information that can be accessed by multiple users. To exclude one or several items from the backup set, uncheck the respective boxes.

6. When finished, click Next.

The subsequent steps are identical to usual backup task creation. For more details, refer to Backing up data

MS Exchange database restore

The restore procedure of MS Exchange requires some preparations to be done before executing the restore task. To ensure successful restoration of your MS Exchange Please backup, follow these steps:

1. Click the Start button, and then point to All Programs. Point to Microsoft Exchange, and then click System Manager.
2. If the Administrative Groups branch is in the left pane, expand it, and then expand the appropriate administrative group branch, also expand the Servers branch, and then expand the appropriate server branch. If the Administrative Groups branch is not there, expand the Servers branch in the left pane, and then expand the appropriate server branch. To expand a branch, double-click the branch or click the "plus" to the left of the branch.
3. For each database that you want to restore, expand the associated storage group branch, right-click the database, and then click Dismount Store. In addition, right-click each database, select Properties, select the Database tab, make sure that the This database can be overwritten by a restore box is checked, and then click OK.

After you have completed the preparatory tasks, you can launch the restore operation.