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It's possible, but long. You cannot extract data from the snapshot.<br />
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But you could COPY your VM, and then rollback a snapshot, and then check Exchange 2010 database offline.<br />
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It's alot of work!<br />
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DO NOT REVERT TO A SNAPSHOT ON THE PRODUCTION SERVER, YOU WILL LOOSE ALL THE EMAIL SINCE THE SNAPSHOT!<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_9249.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: Clone or Copy a virtual machine in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x or ESXi 5.0</a>
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It's possible, but long. You cannot extract data from the snapshot.

But you could COPY your VM, and then rollback a snapshot, and then check Exchange 2010 database offline.

It's alot of work!

DO NOT REVERT TO A SNAPSHOT ON THE PRODUCTION SERVER, YOU WILL LOOSE ALL THE EMAIL SINCE THE SNAPSHOT!

HOW TO: Clone or Copy a virtual machine in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x or ESXi 5.0 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_9249.html]

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I had a problem with Exchange 2010 crashing over the past week, brought a specialist in and fixed it.<br />
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In my ignorance, over that week, I took snapshots of the Exchange server a few times. &nbsp;As a result, we are missing email for about 3 days. &nbsp;The backup that I did during the affected times is corrupt. &nbsp;<br />
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I have all of the snapshots that I took during that period. &nbsp;Is there anyway to retrieve the missing emails from those snapshots?<br />
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Thanks in advance.<br />
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Michael
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I had a problem with Exchange 2010 crashing over the past week, brought a specialist in and fixed it.

In my ignorance, over that week, I took snapshots of the Exchange server a few times.  As a result, we are missing email for about 3 days.  The backup that I did during the affected times is corrupt.  

I have all of the snapshots that I took during that period.  Is there anyway to retrieve the missing emails from those snapshots?

Thanks in advance.

Michael

VM Ware Snapshots and Exchange Server 2010

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.