Use an external drive temporarily?
From: Chris Pohlschneider [mailto:chris.pohlschnei...@hollowayusa.com] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restoring E-mail Folder in Exchange 2003 In pointing the Recovery Storage Group to another server with enough disk space, it says that it needs to be a fixed disk. Is there anyway around this? If not, I guess I will have to build a recovery server instead of using the Recovery Storage Group. ________________________________ From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restoring E-mail Folder in Exchange 2003 That would be a replication issue: just wait 15 minutes or so for AD to replicate the delete around. From: bounce-8753908-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8753908-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pohlschneider Sent: 03 December 2009 15:24 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restoring E-mail Folder in Exchange 2003 Ok I have removed the original Recovery Storage Group and now I want to create a new one. However, I am getting an error when I do that. ________________________________ From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:13 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restoring E-mail Folder in Exchange 2003 Yes that should be fine. Removing the RSG won't delete the databases anyway. From: bounce-8753883-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8753883-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pohlschneider Sent: 03 December 2009 15:01 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restoring E-mail Folder in Exchange 2003 I already have a Recovery Storage Group created, but it points to our current exchange server drives which do not have enough disk space for the restored DB. Can I delete that Recovery Storage Group, create a new one and point it to another server with enough disk space for the Exchange DB without affecting production at this moment? ________________________________ From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:44 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restoring E-mail Folder in Exchange 2003 Yup, you'd need to perform the restore from CA after setting up your RSG. For a basics guide on the RSG, check this out: http://www.petri.co.il/restoring_exchange_mailbox_recovery_storage_group _part1.htm Out of interest, I'm not familiar with CA Arcserve or, of course, your backup strategy, but you may be doing brick level backups which would enable you to recover an individual mailbox, or items from the mailbox, without recovering the entire database. You'd need to look into that and I can't give you any advice on it. Cheers Richard From: bounce-8753846-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8753846-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pohlschneider Sent: 03 December 2009 14:21 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restoring E-mail Folder in Exchange 2003 Can you point me to a good article that describes how to do this? We are using CA Arcserve to backup the Exchange Server. Do I need to use CA to restore the mailbox database or is that a feature within Exchange 2003 that I can do? Thanks for the help! ________________________________ From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restoring E-mail Folder in Exchange 2003 You need a recovery storage group. This can be homed on a dedicated recovery server or your current server. When you do the mailbox database restore, it will automatically restore to the RSG, and you can then use exmerge to extract the data you require. Good luck J From: bounce-8753836-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8753836-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pohlschneider Sent: 03 December 2009 14:04 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Restoring E-mail Folder in Exchange 2003 Hello All: I have a dilemma in where the Exchange Server that I inherited does not have restrictions set on the mailboxes. So mailboxes are large and I am in the process of convincing management that we need to set limits since our disk space is getting low. So in order to keep disk space from getting all used up, I do not have Deleted items retention turned on at the server level. Our president of the company accidentally deleted a very important folder in his mailbox and needs it back. What is the best way to get this folder back? Do I need to setup a recovery server and restore to that server so that I can pull this folder out of his mailbox? We are using Exchange 2003 SP2 or Windows Server 2003 SP2. Thanks for your input! Chris Pohlschneider Holloway Sportswear Network Administrator chris.pohlschnei...@hollowayusa.com 937-494-2559
