Restoring Deleted Contacts and Messages From Exchange Backup With MSBACKUP
I am trying to restore from an MS backup file. I essentially backed up the whole information store and now I need to restore about 100kb worth of data.
I have created a recovery group in exchange. I have read (not followed) the instuctions at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824126/en-us
The instructions get shaky for me when it comes to the restore. This is a live, mission critical service for my company. I would most definitely lose my job if I blew up exchange or overwrote the database with an old one. Log files are deleted following a successful backup. When it comes to restoring my options are
Restore To: (i only have 1 option here...my live production server)
Temporary locatin for log and patch files: (no idea)
[] Last Restore Set (log file will start agter this restore completes)
My concerns are:
A: I don't want anything overwritten
B: I don't want to interrupt production services
C: I want this in the recovery storage group so I can use exmerge to extract contacts from one user's mailbox and a folder containing messages from another.
I have created a recovery group in exchange. I have read (not followed) the instuctions at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824126/en-us
The instructions get shaky for me when it comes to the restore. This is a live, mission critical service for my company. I would most definitely lose my job if I blew up exchange or overwrote the database with an old one. Log files are deleted following a successful backup. When it comes to restoring my options are
Restore To: (i only have 1 option here...my live production server)
Temporary locatin for log and patch files: (no idea)
[] Last Restore Set (log file will start agter this restore completes)
My concerns are:
A: I don't want anything overwritten
B: I don't want to interrupt production services
C: I want this in the recovery storage group so I can use exmerge to extract contacts from one user's mailbox and a folder containing messages from another.
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You exmerge the contents out to a PST file. Once you have the contents in a PST file, simply mount the file in Outlook in the regular way. You can then retrieve what you need. When done, delete the PST file.
Exmerge is a two step process - extract and import. You don't have to do the second stage.
Simon.
You exmerge the contents out to a PST file. Once you have the contents in a PST file, simply mount the file in Outlook in the regular way. You can then retrieve what you need. When done, delete the PST file.
Exmerge is a two step process - extract and import. You don't have to do the second stage.
Simon.
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Now here comes the curveball. My drive does not have the capacity to restore the entire backup. I am about 8 gigs short. (the backup file is 36GB).
Any ideas?
Now here comes the curveball. My drive does not have the capacity to restore the entire backup. I am about 8 gigs short. (the backup file is 36GB).
Any ideas?
Another hard disk or another server. There are no other options.
Simon.
Simon.
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