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Recover Mailbox from backup to a recovery Exchange server
You may have a situation that the user account is deleted from Active
Directory or if the Exchange attributes are removed from the user account,
and the mailbox in the Exchange store was not reconnected or was purged.
It is possible to restore a mailbox from backup to an Exchange Server 2003 without down time
by restoring the mailbox in a recovery Exchange server. This
article assumes you have a good Exchange backup and you use NTBackup to back
up the Exchange. 1. Prepare for restoring the backup to a recovery server 1) Run Exchange System Manager. 2) Navigate to Server>Servaername>First Storage Group, and right-click on it. Select Properties. 3) Click on Database tab. Make sure Exchange databse is c:\Program Files\Exchsrv\mdbdata\priv1.edb and "This database can be overwritten by a restore" is checked.
3. Restore Exchange Mailboxes from the Backup When restoring the Exchange Backup using NTBackup, make sure 1) Restore to point to correct server name. 2) Type a temporary location for the log and path files. 3) Check Last Restore Set. Note: Check Mount Database After Restore is an option.
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Restore the mailbox to a new user 1) Run ADSIEdit.msc
2) When you have highlighted “Recovery Storage Group” on the right side you
would see “Mailbox Store (ExchSRV).” 3)
Right click this Mailbox Store (ExchSRV) and select “Properties”. 4)
On the Attribute editor locate “msExchRestore” and click on “Edit”.
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Select the option “False” and click on “Ok”.
6) Do the same as the Properties of The Recovery Storage Group and setup msExchRestore to False.
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Then open Active Directory Users and Computers. 8)
Create a user with the same name as the user for whom we are trying to
recover the mailbox. 9) Ensure that when you are creating a user you uncheck the option “Create an Exchange Mailbox”. 10)
Then open the Exchange System Manager. 11) Expand Administrative Groups > First Administrative Group > Servers > ExchSRV > Recovery Storage group > Mailbox Store (ExchSRV).
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Right click this Mailbox Store (ExchSRV) and select “Mount Store”.
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Then expand this Mailbox Store (ExchSRV) and select mailboxes.
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You will see all mailboxes on the right side with a red cross.
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Select the mailbox for which we want to recover data and select the option
“Reconnect”
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Then reconnect the mailbox to the user account that you created.
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Then right click the Mailbox “USERNAME” and select and
“Exchange Tasks”.
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Click on next and select the option “Move Mailbox”..
19) If it will be moved in the same administrative group,
20) Make sure you move the mailbox from Recovery Storage Group to Fist Administrative Group.
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