Scenario Guide

PRODUCT SCENARIOS
BEST-IN-CLASS RECOVERY, SEARCH, AND
MIGRATION OF EXCHANGE MAILBOXES
AND EMAIL
Backing up, recovering, searching, or migrating Exchange
servers can be particularly challenging for small and
medium-sized businesses. That’s why it’s important
to include a way to quickly recover email messages,
mailboxes, and other mailbox items as part of an overall
disaster recovery plan. Award-winning StorageCraft®
Granular Recovery for Exchange allows you to
recover individual or multiple mailboxes from
Exchange Database (EDB) files quickly and easily.
StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange
includes the following benefits:
• Recover one or more mailboxes with ease.
• Restore individual email messages, attachments, and
other mailbox content items quickly and easily.
• Migrate individual mailboxes or full Exchange servers
with the help of easy drag-and-drop functionality.
• Throttle data transfers to better manage network traffic during
migration and recovery projects.
• Search mailboxes, email messages, or entire Exchange databases for specific keywords.
• Use with any backup software* for easy Exchange recovery.
• Select alternative temporary database locations when limited on hard drive space.
As part of the StorageCraft® Recover-Ability™ solution, StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange simplifies
management and recovery of Exchange servers. The StorageCraft Recover-Ability solution allows you to recover anytime,
anywhere. Which means you can keep business running after any disaster—great or small. Use a backup of an Exchange
server and recover, search, or migrate mailboxes, email messages, or email attachments easily. By adding StorageCraft
Granular Recovery for Exchange to the tools you’re already using, you have complete backup, search, recovery, and
migration of Exchange servers and critical email data.
StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange Use Case 1—Rapid Recovery of Email
Messages
Scenario: Phil is always hitting the maximum size limit on his email box because he receives hundreds of messages every
day. One weekend, he decides to clean out his entire mailbox, permanently deleting as many messages as he can. Without
thinking, he deletes 25 messages pertaining to a project he needs to start next week.
Desired Solution: Recover all of the deleted messages Phil needs, without recovering his entire mailbox or all of the mailboxes
on your Exchange server.
How StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange can help: With StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange, you can
restore the deleted messages in a matter of a few short minutes. Extract* the EDB file and transaction logs from the Exchange
server backup created using any backup software and with the easy-to-use interface of StorageCraft Granular Recovery
for Exchange, you open Phil’s mailbox, then drag and drop the messages that need to be restored right to your production
Exchange server. Or place all related messages into a PST file and allow Phil to recover the messages he needs.
StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange Use Case 2—Rapid Recovery of
Individual Exchange Mailboxes
Scenario: Joyce and Roger take jobs with your competitor, and before they leave, they delete their entire mailboxes. When you
hire their replacements, you can’t find any messages related to the projects they’d been working on.
Desired Solution: Recover Joyce’s and Roger’s mailboxes, without the need to restore all of the mailboxes on your Exchange server.
How StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange can help: With StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange, you can
restore all of the deleted messages quickly and easily. Extract* the EDB file and transaction logs from the backup image, run
ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange, and target the EDB file from before Joyce’s and Roger’s departure. With the easyto-use interface of StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange, find Joyce’s and Roger’s mailboxes, then drag and drop their
entire mailboxes to your production Exchange server.
StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange Use Case 3—Search for Messages
Based on Specified Criteria
Scenario: Your company is concerned that one of your engineers—Allan—is passing along inside information to a rival
company. You need to conduct an internal investigation to see if he sent email messages to anyone at the rival company using
his company email account.
Desired Solution: Quickly and efficiently find messages containing specific keywords or sent to certain domains from Allan’s
email account.
How StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange can help: Using search parameters built into StorageCraft Granular
Recovery for Exchange, you can search Allan’s email account based on criteria you specify. You can perform the search for
messages sent to the rival company’s domain, specific recipients, time periods, subjects, and/or keywords.
StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange Use Case 4—Merge Mailboxes to an
Existing Exchange Server
Scenario: Your company acquires another smaller company and you are reducing redundant resources. You need to merge
the mailboxes in the acquired company’s Exchange server into your existing server, importing the email messages, calendar
items, and other mailbox data in the process. This process should occur with as little downtime to both Exchange servers as
possible.
Desired Solution: Quickly and efficiently import the mailboxes from one Exchange server into the other Exchange server,
merging the two business systems into one.
How StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange can help: After extracting* the EDB file and transaction logs from the
backup of the source Exchange server, open the EDB file in StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange. Next, open the
second Exchange server as a destination in StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange. At this point it is a simple process
to drag and drop multiple mailboxes in the source server over to the target destination server. New target mailboxes will be
automatically created on the destination server.
ABOUT STORAGECRAFT
At StorageCraft®, the goal of complete disaster recovery drives everything we do. Our StorageCraft® Recover-Ability™ solution is
an end-to-end, best-in-class backup and disaster recovery solution that is both fast and reliable.
StorageCraft Recover-Ability
It starts with a good backup. Our award-winning StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® takes complete, pristine images of your machines,
including all your operating systems, applications, services, and settings.
It then records changes at the sector level, so you always have an up-to-date copy of every machine in your IT environment,
whether it’s a critical server or an employee laptop, physical or virtual. We even work with specialized database servers,
like SQL, SharePoint, or Exchange. You can get granular recovery in Exchange with ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for
Exchange, which works with a ShadowProtect backup image, or StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange, which works
with any backup software.
ShadowProtect gives you complete control over the frequency of your backups and you can set rules for consolidation and
retention to manage your precious storage space using StorageCraft® ImageManager.
Plus, with StorageCraft® ShadowControl® CMD™ you can monitor the machines in your backup environment from a single interface
and get alerts when a machine is running out of space, when a backup doesn’t happen, or when any of a variety of conditions you
specify is met.
We also give you tools to test your backups using StorageCraft® VirtualBoot™ and StorageCraft® ImageReady™ technologies, which
gives you confidence that your data is safe and that a disaster won’t shut you down or hold you up.
Then we make it easy to replicate your backup images offsite to StorageCraft® Cloud Services sites or to your own offsite location
so you can always have your data close when you need it and at a good safe distance when a disaster comes.
When it does, you can launch your backups as virtual machines with VirtualBoot or mount them as drives for complete, granular
access to your data.
Or you can pre-stage the recovery of a backup image in a virtual machine with our patented StorageCraft® HeadStart Restore®
technology, so if your main server blows up, you can be up and running in minutes. You can even virtualize your data in our
cloud so even Mother Nature can’t keep you down.
Then, you can rebuild your infrastructure and recover to all kinds of machines, physical or virtual, using our StorageCraft
Hardware® Independent Restore™ technology or ShadowProtect IT Edition.
You can’t be sure what kind of disaster will strike you next, but with the StorageCraft Recover-Ability solution, you can be sure
it doesn’t matter. You’ll be just fine.
For Additional Information
For additional information about StorageCraft Granular Recovery for Exchange please visit:
www.StorageCraft.com/ExchangeRecovery
StorageCraft Technology Corporation
11850 S. Election Road, Suite 100
Draper, UT 84020 U.S.A.
www.StorageCraft.com
[email protected]
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*If using non-ShadowProtect backup software, the EDB file and transaction logs must be extracted from the backup file and placed in a local directory.
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