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Use NTBackup to restore old Exchange Mailbox store to different domain

I need to get some mailboxes from an old backup tape.
I've installed Win 2003 SP2, setup a new domain and installed Exchange 2003.

When I try to restore the Mailbox store using NTBACKUP I get to the screen that asks where to restore to..
I type in my new server's name, and a temporary path for the log files and get this error

The specified computer is not a Microsoft Exchange Server or its Microsoft Exchange services are not running

The server is an exchange server (version 2003) and the services are running.

I'm following this guide...
http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2003/high-availability-recovery/Exchange-2003-Backup-Restore-NTBACKUP.html

Any ideas? I do not know the name of the original information store or file paths
Is it possible to extract the edb files from my backup, how would I do that?

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antonioking

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thanks Simon
Problem is most third party tools need the .edb files.
My tapes are only showing "Microsoft information store"

How do I get the edb files out of this or are there tools that can read my tapes?

M A

If you can access the bkf from the tape or get the bkf files out of the tape, you could try could try something like this to restore your emails directly from BKF files.
Please check this

antonioking

ASKER

Thank you Simon
I used a third party tool that was able to read the tape backup and allow me to extract the specific messages I wanted.