You are the Exchange administrator for your company. The Exchange organization contains a single Exchange Server 2003 computer.
The exchange server contains one storage group that has three mailbox stores. Each mailbox store contains: 200 mailboxes.
The company’s service level agreement (SLA) requires that Exchange must not be offline for more than four hours. The SLA requires that in the event of data corruption, the most current data must be restored.
You want to test the recovery process on the existing Exchange server after business hours. You need to ensure that the mailbox stores can be restored within four hours without losing the current production data.
What should you do before performing the test restore operation?
A.
Create a new storage group that contains three mailbox stores, select the option to allow the mailbox stores to be overwritten by a restore operation.
B.
On the existing mailbox stores, select the option to allow the mailbox stores to be overwritten by a restore operation.
C.
Create the Recovery Storage Group and add the three mailbox stores. Configure the Recovery Storage Group to use the default Recovery Storage Group path for each of the mailbox stores.
D.
Create the Recovery Storage Group and add the three mailbox stores. Configure the Recovery Storage Group to use the existing database path for each of the mailbox stores.
Explanation:
Setting up a recovery storage group involves two basic steps: creating the recovery storage group and adding the databases to be restored.
This process creates the logical structures that Microsoft� Exchange Server2003 uses to manage the restored data. Restoring the content of the databases is a separate process.
The Recovery Storage Group feature in Microsoft� Exchange Server2003 allows you to mount a second copy of an Exchange mailbox database on the same server as the original database,
or on any other Exchange server in the same Exchange administrative group.
This can be done while the original database is running and serving clients.
This capability allows you to recover data from an older backup copy of the database without disturbing user access to current data.
Setting up a recovery storage group involves two basic steps: creating the recovery storage group and adding the databases to be restored.
This process creates the logical structures that Microsoft(r) Exchange Server2003 uses to manage the restored data.
Restoring the content of the databases is a separate process,
The Recovery Storage Group feature in Microsoft(r) Exchange Server2003 allows you to mount a second copy of an Exchange mailbox database on the same server as the original database,
or on any other Exchange server in the same Exchange administrative group.
This can be done while the original database is running and serving clients.
This capability allows you to recover data from an older backup copy of the database without disturbing user access to current data.
Recovery storage groups were designed to aid in database recovery under the following conditions:
The logical information about the storage group and its mailboxes remains intact and unchanged in Microsoft(r) Active Directory(r) directory service.
In addition, you need to recover a single mailbox, a single database, or a group of databases in a single storage group.Recovery scenarios include:
Recovering deleted items that a user mistakenly purged from their mailbox. Recovering or repairing an alternate copy of database while another copy remains in production (typically,
with the goal of merging data between the two databases using the ExMerge tool). Recovering a database on a server other than the original server for that database. If needed,
you can then merge the recovered data back to the original server (although performance would be slower than if the recovery storage group and the original database were on the same server).
Incorrect Answers:
AB:
They want to test the recovery process on the existing Exchange server after business hours.
You can’t put online same user mailbox in any mailbox sore in any storage group because both will have same mailbox GUID is the most fundamental attribute of a mailbox.
The value of this attribute is set in the database as the mailbox is created, and the value remains the same for the lifetime of the mailbox.
It is a unique value that distinguishes a mailbox from all others.
Deleted or purged mailboxes cannot easily be recovered in the recovery storage group because deleting a mailbox strips all mailbox attributes from the Active Directory user object that previously owned the mailbox.
D:
If the original storage group does not exist on the server on which you are creating the recovery storage group, the recovery storage group must have the same name as the original storage group.
For example, if you are creating the recovery storage group on a recovery server that has no other storage groups, the recovery storage group must have the same name as the original storage group.
If the original storage group exists on the server on which you are creating the recovery storage group, the recovery storage group must have a different name. For example,
if you are creating the recovery storage group on the server where the original database and storage group reside, the recovery storage group can have any name (other than the names that have already been used).
Reference Using Exchange Server2003 Recovery Storage Groups MS White Paper