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Exchange 2003 SP2 - Public Folder Restore
Posted on 2010-08-20
my SBS 2003 box crashed and the partitiion that stored exchange DB got corrupt and screwed up my Mailbox and Public folder store DBs, it's a simple setup one Storage group, one Mailbox store and one Public Folder store. Using NTBACKUP to backup.
I was able to restore the Mailbox store using RSG/Dialtone method following this guide - http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-Dial-tone-Restore-Method-Part1.html
My question is how do i restore the Public Folders store? I've been reading i need to build a seperate recovery server, restore to that, copy to PST etc. then copy back to the production server.
Is this still the case with Exchange 2k3 SP2? Gee i hope not..
I read this EE post - http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_21251528.html , seems like the person was able to just use NTBACKUP (which is what i use), but then i read in this link - http://ben.goodacre.name/tech/Restore_using_NTBACKUP_%28Exchange%29 ,
quote: "Only restore the public folder store if the previous server is dead or will never be booted whilst connected to the same forest/domain; otherwise public folder and GAL replication issues among others are likely to occur. Choose an empty temporary directory to work from and remember it."
So, what do i do?
ntbackup.jpg
I was able to restore the Mailbox store using RSG/Dialtone method following this guide - http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-Dial-tone-Restore-Method-Part1.html
My question is how do i restore the Public Folders store? I've been reading i need to build a seperate recovery server, restore to that, copy to PST etc. then copy back to the production server.
Is this still the case with Exchange 2k3 SP2? Gee i hope not..
I read this EE post - http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_21251528.html , seems like the person was able to just use NTBACKUP (which is what i use), but then i read in this link - http://ben.goodacre.name/tech/Restore_using_NTBACKUP_%28Exchange%29 ,
quote: "Only restore the public folder store if the previous server is dead or will never be booted whilst connected to the same forest/domain; otherwise public folder and GAL replication issues among others are likely to occur. Choose an empty temporary directory to work from and remember it."
So, what do i do?
ntbackup.jpg
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Given that this is the only copy of your public folder database, I would suggest that restoring couldnt cause damage to GAL replication this would not be a problem.
Good Luck!
Good Luck!
Any reasen why you didn't restore the whole mdbdata folder from the backup anyway?
Was the backup to old?
You don't need a different server, you can also attach (a copy off) the old public folder to the current Exchange database and then copy it.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125070(EXCHG.65).aspx
Good luck.
Was the backup to old?
You don't need a different server, you can also attach (a copy off) the old public folder to the current Exchange database and then copy it.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125070(EXCHG.65).aspx
Good luck.
If you have an Exchange offline storage file(.OST) in your local computer, you may also use
Advanced Exchange Recovery
at
http://www.datanumen.com/aexr/
to scan the local .OST file and recover data from it, then save it as a .PST file which can be opened by Outlook as well.
Advanced Exchange Recovery
at
http://www.datanumen.com/aexr/
to scan the local .OST file and recover data from it, then save it as a .PST file which can be opened by Outlook as well.
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