Recovering an Exchange 2007 Local Continuous Replication (LCR) environment

This topic describes how to recover a storage group with LCR enabled. Most of the following PowerShell commands are now available in the Exchange Management Console with Exchange 2007 SP1. You must manually suspend replication in a LCR environment. This applies to VSS and non VSS.

Refer to Managing Local Continuous Replication for more information:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998823.aspx

Follow these steps:

Issue the PowerShell command Suspend-StorageGroupCopy for a storage group before you restore that storage group.
Perform a database restore.

See Performing a snapshot restore of an Exchange 2010 standalone server or an Exchange 2007 or earlier server.
You may need to re-seed the copy before you resume the copy.

Do the following:
- Remove the database files, all log files, and all checkpoint files from the copy location. (If you use it, the Exchange Management Console prompts you to perform this step.)
- Issue the PowerShell command Update-StorageGroupCopy.
  
  See How to Seed a Local Continuous Replication Copy for more information:
  
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995973.aspx
Issue the PowerShell command Resume-StorageGroupCopy to properly resume the copy.