Re: restoring an old mailbox

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Hi Terence,

I guess my biggest concern was because both the databases and the storage
groups they were in no longer exist.I found an article yesterday that said I
couldn't restore a database unless the storage group and database exists,
and that I had to recreate them (which I have now done) with the exact same
names. So now I have two storage groups with empty, unmounted databases in
them, configured to allow them to be overwritten. Do I need a recovery
storage group if I just want to overwrite the entire existing (empty)
database?

The tapes should be delivered today, so we'll probably try to restore at
least one of those databases later today or tomorrow.

Regards,
Mike


"Terence Liu [MSFT]" <v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Mike,

Thank you for posting here. Let's also thank Susan for the input.

According to your description, I understand that you want to recovery 2
mailboxes on your Exchange 2003 system. If I have misunderstood the
problem, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Based on my research, you are still have the Exchange 2003 in the same
administrative group. So you can use the Recovery Storage Group to
recovery
the 2 mailboxes. I suggest we try the steps in the following KB:

How to use Recovery Storage Groups in Exchange Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824126

I hope these steps will give you some help.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Best regards,

Terence Liu (MSFT)

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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...

--
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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