Exchange 5.5 backup 1

[VILNUS]

Dear Friend

I have Exchange 5.5, with like 30 mailbox. We run back ups every day of the entire system. Now in all the maiboxes appear like 30.000 e-mail been store, but if you go to those mailboxes from Outlook you just will se like five e-mails...?how can I get to the 30.000 that are back up in the server...I found out that is a real pain to try to recover that data since you have to get a new server running and install exchange and start from scratch in order to get to the e-mail...too much of a problem.

To solution this I create a folder in the file server called General Mailbox, within this folder every user have a folder containing.then I go to every outlook workstation and create a folder called item to the archive, this folder has properties to archive all e-mail that the user deposit, archive them to the general user folder in the file server. This way I can acces the e-mail right away with out the pain of the exchange recovery, also all user folder are being backup every night.

Any comment to this strategy???

Jorge

 

[Guest_imported]

you can use Backup-Exec or Netbackup to backup to the mailbox level. This will allow you to restore individual mail boxes as well as mail messages.

 

[POSAPAY]

Backup-exec, netbackup...where do I find these? If they backup mailboxes, with all of their contents, calendar, tasks, messages, contacts...is this included software with Exchange, or third party?

 

[UlrichWurst]

It is 3rd Party software. But I recommend NOT using Mailbox-Backups (read here:

http://mail.tekscan.com/nomailboxes.htm

). Instead use deleted item retention to be able to restore single mails without the need of restoring the entire server.

Uli

 

[POSAPAY]

well, my exchange box's services all got somehow corrupted, and even thou I was able to burn to a cd the Exchange directories, it would have been nice to have a regular backup to restore from. As for the Exchange services, I'm sure there is a more general backup program. For the mailboxes, another special program.

Now my new question... how do you recover data, from Exchange folders, when I had to resetup the server, and the server is now in a different domain, as well the server's name is different too now.

any suggestions?

 

[UlrichWurst]

>Now my new question... how do you recover data, from
>Exchange folders, when I had to resetup the server, and
>the server is now in a different domain, as well the
>server's name is different too now.

There is no way to do this. At least Servername and Domainname have to be correct to recover the databases.
If you have another domain you also have another serviceaccount, so the directory will be lost for sure. You might be able to recover public and private storage by installing a new exchangeserver with empty DBs, and then replace the pub.edb and priv.edb by your copies. Then run the DS/IS Consistency-Adjuster to merge the IS-Objects back into the directory. (If IS does not start after replacing the files use 'isinteg -patch' prior to starting the IS Service)

You could also have a look on the 'Disaster Recovery - Stolen Server' Thread on the news://microsoft.public.exchange.admin newsgroup which deals with an identical problem.

Uli