Recover a single mailbox

[johnisotank]

Hi all,

struggling with the following and would appreciate some help pls..

We are not 'live' with Exchange yet and so I am testing disaster recovery.

Our live DB backs up each night using NTBackup into a 'bkf' file.

I would like to be able to restore a single mailbox using this file.

When i run through the restore wizard it doesn't give me the option of restoring the bkf file to my Recovery Storage Group so how do I do it please?

Thanks
John

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

you cannot do a single mailbox recovery with an NTBackup .bkp file. You need a brick level backup performed to be able to do that type of restore.

Cliff, MCSE/MCSA/MCTS/CCNA/VCP/CCA

http://www.samtechconsulting.com

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

Here is a great article to point you in the right direction.

http://www.petri.co.il/brick_level_backup_of_mailboxes_by_using_exmerge.htm

Cliff, MCSE/MCSA/MCTS/CCNA/VCP/CCA

http://www.samtechconsulting.com

 

[johnisotank]

Cheers mate, if only I'd known that earlier!

Thanks a lot, saved me a lot of potential frustration.

John

 

[58sniper]

Brick level backups are not the answer. You can't do a server restore with them. They require a substantial increase of workload on the server to perform (since it requires MAPI). You lose SIS, so the backup files are bigger.

Use an Exchange aware solution by a third party vendor. There is absolutely no need for brick level backups. Ever.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[johnisotank]

Hi Pat, to be honest I think I remember someone saying not to do brick-level backups. Can you recommend any third party vendors, I only know Symantec Exec Backup.

Thanks
John

 

[58sniper]

Backup Exec is a fine solution, as is CommVault.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[johnisotank]

thanks Pat,

Just ordered Backup Exec, so hopefully plain sailing from now on!

thanks again
John