Re: restoring an old mailbox

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OK, thank you, I guess I left myself open for that. Now, does anyone have
any advice that doesn't involve buying another product?


"Susan" <sconkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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the best/easiest way to do this is to use something like Quest's Recovery
Manager for Exchange...

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Susan Conkey [MVP]



"Mike Koch" <gsmike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all. Our Exchange 2007 migration is almost complete, and most of the
databases and storage groups on our Exchange 2003 system have been
removed. Today I've been asked to restore a couple of mailboxes from last
year. One is for a current user (now on Exchange 2007) and one is for a
former employee whose mailbox no longer exists. Both restores will be for
mailboxes that were on the Exchange 2003 system, whose storage groups and
mailboxes no longer exist. If I understand what I've read, I can't use a
recovery storage group since the destination databases no longer exist,
right?

I'm just trying to determine the proper way to do these restores without
whacking any of my production mailboxes. My company uses Networker
(Legato) for backups, if that matters. Can we just restore the databases
back to the 2003 Exchange system? If so, does any type of prep work need
to be done? I still have two databases on that system with production
mailboxes, although the databases I need to restore no longer exist. Can
I just restore the databases, then re-attach the mailboxes in question to
dummy accounts so we can pull the data from them?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!

Mike






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