Restoring old deleted emails

[CatCox]

I need to restore old deleted emails - is this possible, I know you can restore a mail box from backup, but the mailbox is still live. Is there any simple way of restoring sent and deleted emails from a few months back for one mailbox.
Many thanks for any replies

 

[zbnet]

That's what the recovery storage group is for (so long as you still have a backup tape from the period).

 

[CatCox]

I've done ntbackup and tried restoring but I'm reluctant because does it over-write emails and does it restore into mailboxes. Basically is this a safe option, I need to restore emails for one mailbox only.

 

[zbnet]

You could answer that question for yourself in 10 seconds with Google.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/ue2k3rsg.mspx

amongst many others.

 

[markdmac]

I would FIRST try to use the Recover Deleted Items option from within Outlook.

You may also want to make the dumpster always available.

'==========================================================================
'
' NAME: DumpsterAlwaysOn.vbs
'
' AUTHOR: Mark D. MacLachlan , The Spider's Parlor
' URL: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.TheSpidersParlor.com[/URL]
' COPYRIGHT (c) 2005 All Rights Reserved
' DATE  : 10/12/2005
'
' COMMENT: This script and more are available in the Admin Script Pack 
'          [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.thespidersparlor.com/vbscript[/URL]
'==========================================================================
on error resume next
Dim path
Set WSHShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
path = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options\"

WSHShell.RegWrite path & "DumpsterAlwaysOn","1","REG_DWORD"

If err then
	msgbox "Error Encountered"
else
	msgbox "Dumpters Always On Setup Sucessful"
End if

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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