Restoring Exchange data from continuous protection backups

The full backups and the replicated transaction logs provide a complete restore to any point in time of the Information Store, including the latest complete transaction log.

Note:

After you restore a storage group or mailbox store from a CPS Exchange backup, you must restart the CPS Exchange backup job. Otherwise, the continuous protection job and any associated recovery points do not restart.

If you enabled recovery points to run at intervals between the full backups, you can restore individual messages or folders at a point in time when the recovery point was created. Even without recovery points, you can restore individual messages or folders from a full backup.

To restore the entire Information Store to the time of a full backup or recovery point

Select backup sets from the full backup or the recovery point that contains the point in time that you want to restore to.
On the Microsoft Exchange Restore Job Properties dialog box, click Purge existing data and restore only the databases and transaction logs from the backup sets.

To restore up to the latest full transaction log

Select backup sets from the last full backup or recovery point.
On the Microsoft Exchange Restore Job Properties dialog box, click Restore all transaction logs; do not delete existing transaction logs (no loss restore).

To restore to a point in time between full backups or recovery points

Select backup sets from any full backup or recovery point and specify the point in time.
On the Microsoft Exchange Restore Job Properties dialog box, click For continuous protection jobs only, restore all transaction logs until point in time; skip transaction logs after this time.
Specify the point in time.