Restaure Exchange 2016 DAG

[mascac]

Hello,

We are planning to restore an Exchange DAG in our test environment. The DAG is composed of two Exchange servers.

Do I need to start both servers at the same time after the restoration, or can I start them at different times?

Is there any Veeam KB to follow to restaure Exchnage 2016 DAG ?

[Andreas Neufert]

Assuming all exchange mailbox servers are gone but the Forest Tree root Active Directory Server is still present and the Active Directory/DNS server configured in the Exchange server that you want to restore are present. As well as the configured witness share or if not selected a CAS server is present to ensure that exchange has the witness and the infromation store will boot.

You restore one server, but ensure that networking and boot is selected at restore. If you have backed up the server with Veeams Guest Processing, then the server will automatically recover in VSS recover mode with the mailbox coming up. Ensure that the information store of the databases come up. Then restore the second server the same way and it will ensure correct replication through VSS recover mode.