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movement3
Level 2
15 years ago

BE 12.5 restoring mailstore to Exchange 2003 RSG

Hello, I have a request to restore our Sales People mailstore, then exmerge it out to PST files. There are about 100+ mailboxes at 40GB   Exchange 2003 SP2 on Windows 2003 x86 Media Server: B...
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  • Hemant_Jain's avatar
    Hemant_Jain
    15 years ago

    The default behaviour of exchange 2003 is to restore to RSG if it is present and a mailbox database has been added to it. So, all you would need to do is create an RSG on exchange server and add the mialbox store in question to it. Create a temp folder on a drive with enough space to host the transaction logs in the backup set. Default is c:\temp. This folder is used to stage the transaction logs before performing the recovery. The restore job would use default setting, just specify the temp folder if you are not using the c:\temp as default folder for transaction logs.

    There is no difference in the restore process as such. Do let us know if this works for you.

    Please mark it a solution, if this is useful.
    Thanks

Hemant_Jain's avatar
Hemant_Jain
Level 6
15 years ago

The default behaviour of exchange 2003 is to restore to RSG if it is present and a mailbox database has been added to it. So, all you would need to do is create an RSG on exchange server and add the mialbox store in question to it. Create a temp folder on a drive with enough space to host the transaction logs in the backup set. Default is c:\temp. This folder is used to stage the transaction logs before performing the recovery. The restore job would use default setting, just specify the temp folder if you are not using the c:\temp as default folder for transaction logs.

There is no difference in the restore process as such. Do let us know if this works for you.

Please mark it a solution, if this is useful.
Thanks