Restoring Exchange 2000 Priv and pub datastore.

[OLDnTIRED]

I have built a virtual domain to check my exchange backups and I'm wondering if I have to keep the same version of BE that is in production. In production we are using 11d but we are licensed for version 12 of BE. Can I install BE12 in my virtual domain and restore an Exchange 2000 backup that was done in 11d?

Thanks for the help.

[CraigV · Accepted solution]

Hey dude,

Possible. 12.0 will see the details on that tape. Catalog it, and it will populate your new DB. From there you can restore.
I have used 12.0 to restore a server that was backed up using 11D with no hassles...no loss of permissions, data etc.

Laters!

[Abhijit_Soman]

Yes it is very much possible

How you have backed up the exchange previously? using leagacy method or GRT?

You will need to re-catalog the media in BEWS 12.0 before restoration