Restoring Public Folders (Repost)
- From: "Maurice Bishop" <office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:11:03 +0100
Dear Mark (Arnold)
Could I please take this opportunity to thank you for your contributions to
the newgroups. I find your name on many postings, finding the content
insightful and helpful indeed. Thank you very much.
I would appreciate your further comments on this subject.
I have a number of client customers running a mixture of Exchange Server
2003 Std and Small Business Server 2003 Std, each of which require security
copies of their data for recovery purposes. This recovery might include
disaster recovery (full instance database backup using NTBackup) or
mailbox/public folder backup (brick level).
The strategy that I have used to date includes using an NTBackup scheduled
job to file at 21:00 hrs every day, selected EXMERGE extracts at 22:00 hrs
to file and a tape backup using NTBackup to secure user data and the earlier
backup files.
Recently, I had a customer page me with a problem where he inadvertently
deleted a branch of his Public Folders with a considerable amout of data in
several subfolders.
If I understand the situation correctly, I have the following courses of
action available to me:
1. Get everybody off the system and restore from the previous nights 21:00
hrs NTBackup - thereby loosing all data that had been processed that day.
2. Find a separate (lab) server and restore to that machine.
I am trying to find the Microsoft solution to this problem without having to
resort to a third party solution such as Quest, ArcServe or Backup Exec -
products with which I am familiar.
I am struggling to understand why Microsoft have left this area of
functionality (unable to restore just the Public Folders) wide open, or have
I missed the point.
Apologies for the monologue.
TIA
Maurice
"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <mark@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:hc28h1t5d5f65di4uup70e5mmc4qm56o89@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 05:17:04 +0100, "Maurice Bishop"
> <office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I have a regular NTBackup file that contains an Exchange Server 2003 FSG.
>>
>>I wish to restore the public folders.
>>
>>I have created the RSG, but when I go to the NTBackup restore program, it
>>display the FSG (Mailbox store and Public Folders store). There is no
>>redirection option to restore the data to the RSG.
>>
>>How do I set up NTBackup to redirect to the RSG, or have I missed the
>>point?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Maurice
>>
> The RSG can't be used for PF restores. You would still need to use the
> old 5.5, 2000 methods; i.e. restore to test hardware off the network
> that's got a copy of a GC on (say) a lab network.
.
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