Restoring one Mailbox instead of entire PO

[brichr]

Do we really have to restore the entire PO to a Remote Area in order to get one stupid users email back? The restore alone is going to cost me more than a day of work. Here is the TID I am using... Are there any ways to just get one mailbox with attachments back.

http://www.novell.com/documentation...cumentation/gw65/gw65_admin/data/abcggai.html

 

[terry712]

it's safer too

although if you know his fid then you can get away with
renaming his userdb then copying his backup one in to the directory
opening mail - select it all and archive it
swap the db's back
then open mail again then unarchive

 

[brichr]

Will this also return all their attachments? All the attachments are located somewhere in the OFFILES folders. Will restoring the UserDB restore these files as well.

I will give it a shot on my backup GW server.

 

[FarOut]

You should have no problem restoring just the userxxx.db, as Terry explained in his post, and having the exisiting attachments associated with that user once again . A users database has the pointer(s) to messages and attachments. His/Her database does not contain any messages or attachments, just pointers, messages headers, address books, and such.
Later!

FarOut
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