Restore Exchange database to folder?

[lebisol]

I don't see any options to do be able and restore exchange database to a folder....is this even possible?

 

It seems that I have to restore the the full server/store vs. just producing edb and stm files...

Thanks for your input.

All the best!

[nekr0phage]

Hi,

 

No, this option is not available when restoring Exchange. You would only be able to do this if you had initially backed up these files directly from the hard drive.

[lebisol]

hi Foster,

sorry for not posting sooner...fell into day to day stuff...anyhow.

 

It all points that using ntbackup is the way to trully respond to disaster recovery.

There is always a few of VIPs that need access to their contacts,schedules etc. ASAP and can not wait for the entire store to be restored and re-synched up....

 

Not to promote them but tools like Ontrack Power Controlls or Quest Recovery are great for data extraction when no exchange server nor the backup server is online. Unfortunatelly, they can not extract data from Retrospect backups while they have hooks to pull from some other backup apps/formats.

Perhaps this would be a post into "feature requests" for Dantz to prduce something like this or join in with Quest.

Well, it is what it is...good to know....

Thanks for your answers!

All the best!

[nekr0phage]

Hi,

 

Why don't you back up mailboxes? This should allow quick access to any per-user data that needs to be restored individually. I was unclear that this is what you were after - you are not limited to restoring the entire storage group with Retrospect.