recovering mail from edb and stm files

[PaulGillespie]

Hello all!

I've been asked to help a company with a DR situation on a SBS2003.

The company was stopping the information store service every night, copying out the MDBdata folder and then starting the service. Server died and the NT bacups for the OS were no good. Moved them to SBS2011 on new hardware and got the majority of mail from OST files. However, they have lost the public folders.

How can I get the public folder information form the .edb and .stm files from the original server? There would also be a couple of mailboxes that would be good to retrieve if possible.

Thanks, Paul.

 

[Zelandakh]

Quest Recovery Manager.

 

[PaulGillespie]

Thanks Zelandakh, i'll look into it.

If anyone has any more suggestions, i'm all ears!

Cheers
Paul.

 

[58sniper]

Ontrack does some cool stuff as well.

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[PaulGillespie]

Thanks 58Sniper. I was always under the impression that ontrack were horrendously expensive. Even if they are, the client might just have to pay it if the data is that important.

Cheers

 

[Zelandakh]

You get what you pay for though - both solutions are not going to be cheap but you are paying for software that gets back data that was otherwise gone.