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JuergenB
Level 6
3 years ago

How can i restore a single exchange mailbox from Hyper-V Machine Backup (No GRT Backup enabled)

Hello, in most Whitepapers and best practice i can read how to backup and restore a Exchange 2016 user mailbox with GRT enabled. But how would i restore a single user mailbox of an Exchange 2016 Se...
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Windows Server 2016
  • Gurvinder's avatar
    Gurvinder
    3 years ago

    since GRT was disabled, the backup would have not marked where the database resides in that set. So restore will not give you that selection.

    You can restore the VM disk on which the database resided to a local drive.  Use some tools to open the database and get the mails or mailbox exported.

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Gurvinder
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since GRT was disabled, the backup would have not marked where the database resides in that set. So restore will not give you that selection.

You can restore the VM disk on which the database resided to a local drive.  Use some tools to open the database and get the mails or mailbox exported.

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JuergenB
Level 6
3 years ago

Thanks,

i restored some Full Backups of the Exchange and a DC for some given dates.


And with powershell New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox ..
i have several usermailbox.pst files for given dates.