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Restore an folder in individual mailbox from Windows Server Backkup

Hi,
  I have SBS2011/Exchange 2010 being backed up to an external USB HD using Windows Server Backup software. Yesterday an user deleted a folder in his INBOX by mistake and wants to know if it can be restored from the backup. I run daily backup at 6PM. So the exchange backup was done after he deleted a folder in his INBOX using Outlook.
  How do I restore an specific folder in user's mailbox from Windows Server Backup?
  When I use Backup Exec SBS version of Backup software, I can restore a folder or an mail item from user mailbox, but not sure how it is done on Windows Server Backup.
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User generated imageWhen I right click "Deleted Items" folder in my outlook, I do not see "Recover Deleted Items".
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Adam,
 
 Another question. If I have .OST file in C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook folder (dated before  the user deleted that folder), I can open it (and make sure that the computer is NOT connected to Exchange Server to prevent sync) and perhaps export the deleted folder and import it into live Outlook?
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User generated imageI see "Recover Deleted Items" on my Outlook and along with recently deleted emails items.
Let me check User's Outlook to see if I can do the same.
I will report back.
Yeah. That should work.
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Update:
1. I saw a ton of emails when I clicked "Recover Deleted Items" this morning going all the way back to 9/23/2016.
2.  I scrolled down to 10/20/2016 when the user claimed to have deleted files under "Search" folder.
3. Held down Shift Key on the first email on 10/20/2016 and press [PgDn] key to select thousands of emails and clicked [Restore].

I have two questions wit this.
1. The user said that he deleted thousands of emails from [Search Folders]. How these emails (that show up in [Search Folders]) get there?
2. If they come from a variety of other sub-folders under INBOX, then by doing [Restore], will each individual email go back to each original folder/location or do these all go back to [Search Folders]?
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User generated image@Adam,

  I think I need to restore his mailbox  from the exchange database prior to last Thursday (10/20/16) when he deleted thousands of emails from "SEARCH Folders" and subsequently purged them from "Deleted Items" folder.
  The reason is that even though I restored all those files from  "Deleted Items" folder over the weekend, since those recovered emails are all in "Deleted Items" folder, he does not know where those emails were originally came from.
  So my thought is that I would restore his entire mailbox from Windows Backup into another mailbox account, export them into a PST file and import that PST into his mailbox with "Do not import duplicates" option.
 That way all the missing emails in all the folders will be restored.

 I have not restored the mailbox or exchange database before. So what I like to know is that if I choose last Wednesday date which is 10/19/16 from "Recover Wizard/Select Backup Date" window, will I able to restore his mailbox as of last Wednesday?
You should be able to, yes. There are a lot of steps involved in doing the restore, though. http://exchangeserverpro.com/restore-individual-mailbox-exchange-2010/ has a comprehensive guide.
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I successfully restore the database as of 10/19/16 and currently following the steps outlined in:
http://exchangeserverpro.com/restore-individual-mailbox-exchange-2010/
I am about to create a recovery database, but I decide to create PST file from current mailbox account first before creating RecoveryMailboxDatabase and mouting.
I will report back with the result.
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Strange. I created Recovery Database "RDB" and its size (8,256KB) is way smaller than the original (59,514,944KB)
and when I ran "Get-MailboxStatistics -Database RDB10192016", I get no statistics.
Have I done something wrong here?User generated imageRecovery-Database-Command.txt