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Restore Exchange resources using PowerShell cmdlets

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Restoring an Exchange database includes initiating a connection session with the SnapCenter Server, listing the backups and retrieving backup information, and restoring a backup.

You must have prepared the PowerShell environment to execute the PowerShell cmdlets.

About this task

For ONTAP 9.12.1 and below version, the clones created from the SnapLock Vault Snapshots as part of restore will inherit the SnapLock Vault expiry time. Storage admin should manually cleanup the clones post the SnapLock expiry time.

Steps

  1. Initiate a connection session with the SnapCenter Server for a specified user by using the Open-SmConnection cmdlet.

    Open-smconnection  -SMSbaseurl  https://snapctr.demo.netapp.com:8146/

  2. Retrieve the information about the one or more backups that you want to restore by using the Get-SmBackup cmdlet.

    This example displays information about all available backups:

    PS C:\> Get-SmBackup

BackupId                      BackupName                    BackupTime                    BackupType
--------                      ----------                    ----------                    ----------
341                           ResourceGroup_36304978_UTM... 12/8/2017 4:13:24 PM          Full Backup
342                           ResourceGroup_36304978_UTM... 12/8/2017 4:16:23 PM          Full Backup
355                           ResourceGroup_06140588_UTM... 12/8/2017 6:32:36 PM          Log Backup
356                           ResourceGroup_06140588_UTM... 12/8/2017 6:36:20 PM          Full Backup

  3. Restore data from the backup by using the Restore-SmBackup cmdlet.

    This example restores an up-to-the-minute backup:

    C:\PS> Restore-SmBackup -PluginCode SCE -AppObjectId 'sce-w2k12-exch.sceqa.com\sce-w2k12-exch_DB_2' -BackupId 341 -IsRecoverMount:$true

    This example restores a point-in-time backup:

    C:\ PS> Restore-SmBackup -PluginCode SCE -AppObjectId 'sce-w2k12-exch.sceqa.com\sce-w2k12-exch_DB_2' -BackupId 341 -IsRecoverMount:$true -LogRestoreType ByTransactionLogs -LogCount 2

    This example restores a backup on secondary storage to primary story:

    C:\ PS> Restore-SmBackup -PluginCode 'SCE' -AppObjectId 'DB2' -BackupId 81 -IsRecoverMount:$true -Confirm:$false
-archive @{Primary="paw_vs:vol1";Secondary="paw_vs:vol1_mirror"} -logrestoretype All

    The -archive parameter enables you to specify the primary and secondary volumes you want to use for the restore.

    The -IsRecoverMount:$true parameter enables you to mount the database after the restore.

The information regarding the parameters that can be used with the cmdlet and their descriptions can be obtained by running Get-Help command_name. Alternatively, you can also refer to the SnapCenter Software Cmdlet Reference Guide.