Exchange mailbox recovery...please help.

[Mark_Webb]

Just taken over here and run into a problem with W2K/Exchange 2K and Veritas Backup Exec 8.6.

A change was made by our corp. IT guys to Groupshield, unfortunatley the change allowed Groupshield to remove EVERY attachment from ALL email on the server. I have since altered these settings but the damage was done.

So I have a fully operational exchange server, a compete backup of the mailboxes/etc but due to my limited experience with BE I find myself a little out of my depth. Can I just restore the mailboxes over the top of the current mailboxes?

My plan was
- to get the users to archieve (pst).
- Restore the mail boxes.
- then using simple drag and drop users can move new items back to the server.

Any advice help GREATLY appreciated.

[Ken_Putnam]

DO NOT do a mailbox restore in a situation like this. What you want to do is a full stores restore This basically counts as disaster recovery. See the admin guide for specific step if you can't find your copy, get one here

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/240870.htm

Your idea of having everyone archive anything new since the screwup to a PST is a good one.

[Mark_Webb]

Thx Ken.

Unfortunatley I now have a new issue - posted.

Thx again - sorry for the delay in the thanks but I have been a little stressed ;p Good learning curve though....:D