But for small to midsize operations, these tools are too expensive and require integration that might be beyond the scope of smaller IT departments. Attachments and their many revisions can consume massive amounts of server and client disk storage, and legal requirements for retention can make managing storage even more complex.įor larger organizations, there are enterprise-class tools to tackle storage management and archiving for e-mail, including document archiving and management systems that connect into the enterprise e-mail system. Lessons learnt: don’t be misled by error messages, and it is always reading the architecture again and again for every feature you are using.īy now you should be able to restore single item from your Backup Exec 2012 backup, next blog post will talk about restoring an entire database.Collaborative applications such as SharePoint are popular today, but the reality for most IT departments is that e-mail remains the center of most organizations' workflows. Honestly I was trying to restore the administrator mailbox, so I tried to restore a normal user and it worked. Ensure that the server is available and that the database is mounted, and then run the job again. The database that the mailboxes reside in is dismounted or is not accessible. The job failed with the following error: Cannot restore one or more mailboxes. Trying again I got a very nice error “again” : New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role SymantecEWSImpersonationRole -User Username SymantecEWSImpersonationRoleAssignment New-ManagementRole -Name SymantecEWSImpersonationRole -Parent ApplicationImpersonationĢ- Command to assign a user to SymantecEWSImpersonationRoleAssignment: To fix this issue, assign the BEadmin the impersonation permissions using the following cmdlets:ġ- Command to create a new role called SymantecEWSImpersonationRole: Impersonation role with the Backup Exec resource credentials you specify for theīackup Exec creates and assigns the following roles:Īnd all of a sudden things started to make sense, to access EWS and restore item for another mailbox, you MUST have the impersonation rights, well powershelling my Exchange server, I didn’t find the mentioned roles, it looks like setup is broken and didn’t create them or they weren’t created on my server for a reason or another. Exchange Impersonation role assignment associates the So back to the basics, I read the BE admin guide, and went to the GRT restore part to find interesting statement:īackup Exec also creates an impersonation role and a role assignment for Exchange I searched for the error and found a knowledge base from Symantec stating that I need to configure the service account in the form of not “domain\account”, I did that and even suspected in the SSL certificate and created a new one with no luck no matter how hard I tried, it didn’t work. Review the resource credentials for the job, and then run the job again The job failed with the following error: Cannot log on to EWS with the specified credentials. I spent 2 days trying to figure out the reason why the restore is not working, I was getting this misleading error: Now if you believe that the restore will work, I would like to tell with a lot of joy it will not. In the summary page click next and then the restore job starts. In the additional tasks, you have the option to notify some users or run pre-commands, it is a nice option and new to Backup Exec 2012 “I Loved it”, in my case I will continue: In the following screen, Select the options as per your restore preference, in my case I will select none and continue: Select the location of the restore, in our case I will restore it to the original location (the administrator inbox): In which mailbox and items do you want to restore, explore the database and mailbox to find the item you want to restore, in my case I want to restore the mail item “Test 5” which was in the administrator mailbox and I have deleted it: In the following screen and for the sake of this part of the article select mailbox item and click next: In the data selection page, select the Exchange data and click next: Select your Exchange server, and choose restore: Note: your backup job must have been configured to use GRT, otherwise you will not be able to recover single item from the mailbox database. To Restore a single item from the backup set: You need to make sure that you have a working backup set, we will continue from our configuration we have committed in the first part of this series:
HOW TO RESTORE FILE FROM SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2010 HOW TO
In This post we will explore how to restore a mailbox or a single mailbox item using Backup Exec 2012 to Exchange 2012.