Yeah I know. You are probably wondering what does DPM or Exchange have to do with virtualization. Well it doesn’t, except that with DPM you can backup Virtual Server or Hyper-V virtual images, and Exchange is officially supported in virtual environment. Be that as it may, this post has really nothing to do with virtualization. Anyway, my latest project includes working with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager and Exchange 2007 CCR. So I would like to share some known problems, and errors that may happen when you try to recover Exchange Storage group, or Mailbox Database to Original Exchange location. So after recovery process completes successfully, you are not completely done, because DPM replica becomes inconsistent. So why is that? Well, because DPM automatically recovers to Active node of Exchange CCR, few steps must be done on Passive Node after recovery. Steps are:
Suspend replication for the storage group by running the following command:
Suspend-StorageGroupCopy -Identity:<Server\StorageGroupName>
Reeseed the copy of database using following command:
Update-StorageGroupCopy -Identity:<Server\StorageGroupName>
Resume replication :
Resume-StorageGroupCopy -Identity:<Server>\<StorageGroupName>
After all that, go back to DPM and do a Consistency Check on your DPM replica and you will see nice green status color.