Restore an exchange information store from a VSS snapshot
Exchange restore
Situation: you have an exchange server that is backed up using BE11d. The backup of the information store is done via snapshot.
The problem: you have a user who has deleted a folder within their exchange mailbox. Note: You have passed the retention period of deleted items as set under your primary exhange server as seen in the first administrative group.
You know that because the information store is backed up as a snap shot, you cannot restore to a recovery storage group.
Question: Describe in detail how you would go about recovering the mailbox for the user. NOTE: You cannot dismount the active (currently running) information store.
This store is running in a 24/7 environment.
There must be some way where I can get that information off of the tape and onto a server other than the exchange server and then point an exchange recovery tool at the data or if possible mount the data for recovery either on a test exchange server or via a query from the production server
Situation: you have an exchange server that is backed up using BE11d. The backup of the information store is done via snapshot.
The problem: you have a user who has deleted a folder within their exchange mailbox. Note: You have passed the retention period of deleted items as set under your primary exhange server as seen in the first administrative group.
You know that because the information store is backed up as a snap shot, you cannot restore to a recovery storage group.
Question: Describe in detail how you would go about recovering the mailbox for the user. NOTE: You cannot dismount the active (currently running) information store.
This store is running in a 24/7 environment.
There must be some way where I can get that information off of the tape and onto a server other than the exchange server and then point an exchange recovery tool at the data or if possible mount the data for recovery either on a test exchange server or via a query from the production server
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ExMerge is fine when you have two information stores to work with. The problem is I have my one production store which I can't take offline. My question is how do I get my restore onto another server when it is a VSS backup. I can't seem to find any detail on how to do this. Lots of stuff on restoring to a recovery storage group (assuming your backup allows you to do this) it seems that there is very little detail, know how on recovering from a VSS backup to a different host. I need to either get this information store onto another machine, or...get the data off of the tape onto a host where I can then (I hope) use some tool to sort through the data. All I can say is that whomever designed the VSS option for Exchange didn't really think this one through.
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