How to Update Database Copy in Exchange 2010

How to Update Database Copy in Exchange 2010

Updating Database Copy is the process in seeding a copy of a mailbox database from one Exchange server to another Exchange server. In the following cases, you may need to use Seeding Database Copy.

1. To build a redundant database copy after a new passive copy of a database is created.

2. After a failover occurs in which data is lost as a result of the passive database copy having become diverged and unrecoverable.
3. When the system has detected a corrupted log file.

To use the EMC to seed a mailbox database copy, please follow these stpes:
1. Open EMC.

2. Navigate to Organization Configuration > Mailbox.
3. Click the Database Management tab.

4. On the Database Copies tab, right-click the database copy you want to update, and then select Suspend Database Copy.

5. After you suspended the Database Copy, right-click the database copy you want to update again and select Update Database Copy.

6. On the Update Database Copy page, configure the available options for updating a database copy:

By default, the active copy of the database is used as the source database for seeding. If you prefer to use a passive copy of the database for seeding, check the Select a source server for seeding checkbox, and then click Browse to select the server containing the passive copy you want to use for the source.

Configure the task's behavior if files exist in the path of the database copy being seeded. If any existing files are in the database path, you can either select Delete them and continue to update process to remove all existing files and proceed with the seeding operation, or you can select Cancel the update process to terminate the task.

By default, once seeding has completed, continuous replication will automatically resume for the database. If you don't want replication to automatically resume, select Leave the database copy suspended. I will manually resume replication later.

Optionally specify a DAG network to be used for seeding. Click Browse to select the DAG network you want to use.

Once you have configured the available options, click Update to update the database copy.

Note: if you receive this warning, click Yes to all to continue.

7. When it completes, the Summary states whether the operation was successful. Click Finish to exit the wizard.

You can also use the Shell to update a mailbox database copy. Here is the example command for our case.

Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy -Identity Exec Database 1\Exch-mail02 -SourceServer 'Exch-mail01' -DeleteExistingFiles.

Post your questions, comments, feedbacks and suggestions

Contact a consultant