Exchange Backup & Restore

Exchange 2003 Recovery

My company is a small non-profit which relies heavily on email and my fear is that of losing our Microsoft Exchange 2003 email server.  Therefore, my goal is to have the necessary hardware in place along with procedures that would enable rapid recovery if our mail server goes belly up.  Now...

Event ID: 478

Hello all First I like to thank for your time I am new to IT field and I am administering small business exchange server. A few week ago the exchange server had a hard crash due to insufficient disk space. after I do some clean up I am not able to do back up in back up exec as well as NT back up....

Restore a Single Email Message from 2+ years!

We have a legal request to restore an deleted email message from 2006. The user is still on the network currently, and I have looked in her mailbox, scanned for possbile .pst and archive files to no avail. The last administrator used NT Backup and I found a backup from 2005 that I would like to...

Image backup and ntbackup of exchange 2007

i m running a exch 2007 with winserver 2003. on DELL 2950 server A ,all things work fine, i have also taken image backup by Acronics software of the C drive of my exchange server A,this image has also been tested by restoring on another DELL server B of same specs which also work fine but after one...

Error Message backing up public folders in Exchange 2003

I have recently installed Acronis Recovery for Exchange and it seems to work very well. However, the log contains hundreds of messages similar to "Error while reading the Public Folder//Database/name-68352703.EML message". The referenced database is a contacts database and does not contain email. ...

Backing up Exchange database

I'm running Exchange Server 2003 on a 2003 Server. We have 2 storage groups totaling about 309G in size total. I'm trying to figure out the most effective and efficient way to back this up. We are trying to use Veame to accomplish this and I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how we can...

Slow Exchange Store Backup using Veritas backup Exec

I am trying to backup exchange store using a remote agent and exchange module on veritas 9.1 backup for windows , It take more than 12 hrs to backup 40 GB store.

Test defrag of database in exchange 2007 sp1

We do not have a test environment and I would like to make a copy of the database on storage group 1 that needs to be defraged after all the mailbox moves to other storage groups/databases. Question: What is the best way to copy and move it without taking the email system down? Question: When...

LCR vs SCR

What are the main differences between LCR and SCR? I would like to replicate exchange data to provide high availability in case the main Exchange server fails or has an issue. What would be the failover procedure?

Exchange 2007 TSM GUI

After I installed the TSM Exchange TDP (Exchange 2007 CCR cluster) and tried to launch the GUI I got an error that the exchange server was unavailable. I did some digging and found out I had to launch the GUI from the tdp command line using tdpexc /excserver=exchangeservername on a clustered...

Exchange 2007 TSM backups

We are testing backups and restores using Tivoli Storage Manager Exchange TDP. So far I am happy with the results but I am testing it on a newly created Exchange 2007 CCR server with only 3 mail boxes in one mail store. Does anyone have experience with TSM and Exchange 2007 and can tell me how it...

Recovering Public Folder Database in Exchange 2007

I luckily have a backup of our Exchange Public Folder. Restored it, and get the error Exchange is unable to mount the database that you specified. specified database: public folder database: Error code: Mapiexceptioncallfailed: unable to mount database (hr-0x80004005, ec=-544) I don't have...

DR for Exchange 2003 in SAN

I have been given a task of setting up Disaster Recovery for Exchange 2003 Infrastructure. We have several Exchange Servers in each of the 2 Sites. Each Site will be a Recovery Center for each other. I'd like to set up a block level Exchange DR between the 2 Sites. All Exchange data are currently...

Backing up email copies (Exchange Server)

The following question was recently submitted by a user via e-mail: I want to back up a copy of a couple hundred e-mails on CD, but also leave them on my Exchange Server. Is there a fast way to do this?

Restore backup from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2003

Is it possible to restore mailboxes backuped from Excahnge 2007 on Exchange 2003 server?

exchange server data recovery

Exchange server crashed. The data was on another partition. how can i get the data to the new installation of exchange 2003. I have no backup.

Move Exchange 2000 to new hardware

We plan to do an offline backup and restore to new hardware with Veritas Bare Metal Restore. We want to do an offline backup to prevent any mail flow. I have seen an article that talks about skipped files with offline backups of Exchange. Has anyone tried this before? Any advise?

Exchange server 2007 recovery storage group backup

Has anyone successfully restored a backup of an Exchange 2007 store/database using the Recovery Storage Group features of Exchange 2007? I keep running into issues restoring the database, not emails. Using Symantec Bakup exec 11d

s there any way to restore a Exchange public folder item/Folder after the deleted item retention period is over?

Is there any way to restore a public folder item/Folder after the deleted item retention period over from a public folder database.one of the user mistakenly deleted a folder long time back,But i have valid backup .using any Microsoft tools?

Exchange Server recovering sent items for a user with recovery storage group

I wonder is any of you familiar with recovery storage group ? I have a user's mailbox who want me to restore those of his email he accidently deleted from 1 Oct 08 – 17 Oct 08 from the sent items folder. I know this user’s mailbox was hosted on a exchange 2k SP4 server until last fri but...