Restoring emails on Exchange 2003 and SBS2003

There are times when you need to restore only some emails rather than the whole Exchange server. This video gives you a brief introduction to the process that is requires to restore a number of deleted emails from a backup into a users mailbox.

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[andymackkk]

Hi Robert,

Again - thanks for taking the time to post this. It just helped me and worked a treat.

regards

Andy

[saturnalliance]

@andymackkk Glad to hear that it helped. Thanks

Robert

[mister8765]

Great video!!! So this can be done live with affected any other users?

[saturnalliance]

@mister8765 Thanks. Basically yes. Once you have a workign Exchange store up and running (even if it is empty) users can work. You can then copy backup data into that store while they continue to work.

Thanks

Robert

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[mister8765]

@saturnalliance Thanks for the quick reply.

Just another question. If the user wants to restore emails that have been deleted after the last backup. When restoring the logs and replaying them, will it also replay the logs that have not been truncated yet if the temp restore folder is different to the main log folder? I assume so but just want to double check. Will this then restore the deleted emails?

[saturnalliance]

@mister8765 I'm not an Exchange 'expert' however when the backup is run it rolls the logs into the database and deletes them. Depending on how you have you logs set up they may not be present in the restore process. In a DR where you restore the DB and the logs are available it should kick off from where it was last left. Also remeber that you have a deleted email retention time users can take advantage of which is ually 30 days I believe by default.

[saturnalliance]

Yes the databases are marked are nor restorable to prevent accidential overwriting.

When you restore the exchange database you restore the WHOLE database, emails, contacts, calendar, etc for ALL users. if you do that you can then extract just the desired contacts for a single user BUT you need to restore the WHOLE exchange database first.

Thanks

@directorcia

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[JoRoMoates]

Thanks for taking the time to do this.

Am I correct that a default safegaurd in Exchange is that it cannot be accidentally over-written from a restore?

Can I use this process to get only contacts?

[saturnalliance]

@hareed1 Glad you liked it.

Thanks

Robert

[hareed1]

very help full video thank you