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Can't restore email from and RDB on Exchange 2010
Here's our situation. A user at another location was somehow deleted from AD. The local admin re-created the user's account, but was never able to recover any of the mail. I restored the entire MDB from backup and mounted as an RDB (recovery database) on Exchange. The problem I have now is two-fold.
One, when I run the command to recover the items from the RDB, I'm getting the error "Database "RDB" is not a recovery database."
That would be ok if my second option would work: New-MailboxExportRequest
However, THAT also fails, with the error "A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'userid'
I've tried using the display name, email ID, user ID. Nothing works. If I can simply export to PST and send the guy that file, we'd be fine.
One, when I run the command to recover the items from the RDB, I'm getting the error "Database "RDB" is not a recovery database."
That would be ok if my second option would work: New-MailboxExportRequest
However, THAT also fails, with the error "A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'userid'
I've tried using the display name, email ID, user ID. Nothing works. If I can simply export to PST and send the guy that file, we'd be fine.
First can you go and check disconnected mailbox section, and see if that still exist, if so rejoin it to new id.
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nothing exists in disconnected mailboxes (that would have helped).
The RDB was NOT set as a recovery database, so I followed your instructions and they worked. However, it's not letting me replay the log files. Saying current log file missing.
The RDB was NOT set as a recovery database, so I followed your instructions and they worked. However, it's not letting me replay the log files. Saying current log file missing.
You may not need the log files, have you tried exporting the mailbox you require?
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Everytime I try to, I get "A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument..." and then it either lists the username or proper name. I am using the following:
New-MailboxExportRequest -Identity user@ourdomain.com -Database RDB –PSTFolderPath F:\Temp\user.pst
The thing is, I'm trying to specify exporting from the RDB because that user exists (his new account) on a MDB, so I'm trying to export him from one DB. If I can just get that PST exported, I'd be fine.
New-MailboxExportRequest -Identity user@ourdomain.com -Database RDB –PSTFolderPath F:\Temp\user.pst
The thing is, I'm trying to specify exporting from the RDB because that user exists (his new account) on a MDB, so I'm trying to export him from one DB. If I can just get that PST exported, I'd be fine.
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A common mistake is the name of the database being mistyped and the name of the actual EDB file being changed which creates a blank database.