When you restore an Exchange 2003 database, a file called restore.env is created automatically. If you are
curious to know more about the contents of restore.env then this is the page for you.
We humans do not normally need to read restore.env. This is just a temporary environmental file holding path information about the data. Its purpose is to help the Exchange 2003 restore process find its files and match them with the corresponding email stores. However,
if you wish, you
can view the contents of restore.env using eseutil /cm, or if the restore.env file remains after a faulty restore, open it with notepad. See more about eseutil here.
To discover what's in your restore.env run: eseutil /cm path to restore.env. Note: you probably need to navigate to the \Exchsrvr\Bin folder before executing the command.
Example of Restore.env contents
Microsoft(R) Exchange Server(TM) Database Utilities Version 6.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1991-2003. All Rights Reserved. Restore
log file: e:\restore
Restore Path: e:\restore
Annotation: Microsoft Information Store Backup Instance: EnglandStorage
Target Instance: Restore Instance System Path: Restore Instance Log Path:
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After you have physically restored the database files from backup, Exchange 2003 needs to get up-to-date. What it does is to replay all the transactions since that backup set. How does it do
this? By reading the log files. Restore.env keeps a list of the all the database files and their paths so that restore can complete successfully.
Restore.env plays no part in a soft recovery. Here we have an automatic synchronization of the transaction logs with the database after an unexpected shutdown. The key file here is the checkpoint
file. Exchange 2003 say's ' Where was I before I was rudely shutdown? '. ' Ah I see from the checkpoint file (E0x.chk).
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Restore.env is a file created automatically during a normal Exchange 2003 restore. If you wish to examine the contents, then run eseutil /cm (path to restore.env).
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