Restoring a single mailbox 1

[1dannyd]

I begged these people to let me know before I put in any filters. But there is always one. I set my Symanbtec antivirus filters to find and delete anything with certain extensions. *.zip was included. I told them all what wqould happen.
Now he wants anything back that got deleted. I do a regualr information store backup. Can I retrieve just a single mailbox out of this or must i restore the whole thing?
Thanks,
Dan

 

[DarkHat]

I belive you will have to restore to whole thing....
Exept if you backup software allow you to restore mailbox by mailbox.... (Like Netbackup,etc)

 

[MattWray]

What type of backup are you using? We use Veritas, and with that I know you can restore a single mailbox...

Thanks,

Matt Wray
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA

http://www.sss-steel.com

 

[mtraversMSFT]

If you do not have the option to restore a single mailbox from your backup, here is an article I wrote that describes the step by step process

813337 HOW TO: Recover or Restore a Single Mailbox in Exchange 2000 Server

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=813337

Hope this helps

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[dvrdwn]

I'd just like to echo mattwray's comment.
We use Veritas here and you can in fact do a single mailbox restore - you can do it on the fly with out taking the box down.

 

[forbsy]

This was in an earlier post and I totally agree. It's a easy and powerful application. You could even restore a single calendar item from a user's mailbox if need be:

OnTrack (

http://www.ontrack.com

)has a software package called Power Controls that will open the DB files and allow you to extract the data to pst files on a per user basis. Very easy to use, works well on good and corrupt databases.

The free demo version may have all of the functionality you need, but I love it so much I bought a copy for every day restores. Much better and faster then BrickLevel backup/restores.