Veeam Exchange Recovery - Existing?

[dhayes16]

Hello All..Was a long weekend for me. We were able to restore mailboxes from a backup to another exchange server. However, I did not estimate the amount of storage required during this restore to account for the hundreds of thousands of log files that were created so I had to abort the backup at about 93% recovered and allocate more storage to the VM. Now all the email seems to have restored and the database seems good on this new server. I am estimating about 30GB of data did not restore.

So this may seem like a basic question but I just wanted to confirm. If I fire up a new restore from that old database will it skip the items that have already restored into the individual mailboxes and just restore the items that are missing? I have not run into this situation before and just want to confirm...The option to restore "changed items" or "Missing items" is just that..Correct? If they exist it will not restore existing.?

Sorry for the triple check but I just do not want to end up restoring the entire database again

Thanks again
Dave

[PetrM]

Hi Dave,

will it skip the items that have already restored into the individual mailboxes and just restore the items that are missing

Yes, already restored mailboxes will be skipped as long as you select the checkboxes "Changed items" and "Missing items". You will see the number of skipped items in the restore report.

Thanks!

[Regnor]

It may be a bit late, but next time you could active circular logging for your Mailboxdatabases; this will limit the creation of the log files.