Restore from a Exchange 2003 mail store?

[irbk]

We have been running Exchange 2010 for about a year now. We may have a need to restore a mailbox from 2006. This would be in a Server 2003 mail store. Even if I could get the old tape drive hooked up to a server and get backup exec to read the tape, I have reservations about trying to restore data from it. I worry that by trying to restore information from the 2003 system into the 2010 system, it may whack our 2010 mailstore. Is this a valid concern or am I just being over cautious? Has anyone tried anything like this before?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ntinlin]

You can't restore directly from EX2003 to EX2010, EX2003 databases are not transportable.

Best although not cheapest bet is to get yourself a tool like Kroll Ontrack PowerControls or Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange which can interface directly with Backup Exec.
They'll then dump out the streamed backup to a .EDB & .STM file plus logs and allow you to export the individual mailbox to a PST.

Neill

 

[nash99]

+1 for Ontrack.

 

[58sniper]

I would agree as well. As long as you have the unmounted .edb file, the Ontrack software should be able to look into the database and export data.

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