Brick-Level (Single) Mailbox Backup/Restore ! ! !

[Amit Tank]

Brick-Level (Single) Mailbox Backup using EXMERGE

 

1.    Navigate to the %Program Files%\Exchsrvr\bin folder of your Exchange server and double-click EXMERGE.EXE.

 

2.    On the Welcome page click Next.

 

3.    On the “Procedure Selection” dialogue box, select “Export or Import (Two Step Procedure)”.

 

4.    On the “Two Step Procedure” dialogue box, select “Step 1: Extract data from and Exchange Server Mailbox”.

 

5.    In the “Source Server” dialogue box specify the name of your Exchange server. If you have a multiple domain environment you'll need to specify the name and LDAP port number of your Domain Controller. Click Next.

 

6.    In the “Database Selection” dialogue box select the mailbox store you want to perform the action upon.

          Click Next.

 

7.    In the “Mailbox Selection” dialogue box select individual mailboxes or press the “Select All” button to select all mailboxes found in that store. In this example I will only select one mailbox. Note that you can also see the mailbox size next to the mailbox name.

          Click Next.

 

8.    On the “Locale Selection” dialogue box select the Locale that you would like to use to search the mailboxes.

 

          Click Next.

 

9.    Specify the path to the folder where you want to place the .PST files. Best practice is to store this PST on another HDD, not on the same HDD & Partition where your exchange store stored for performance. Also, make sure you have enough free space on that partition.

         

          Click Next.

 

10. On the “Save Settings” dialogue box you can now save the settings you've configured so far, or you can just click Next. You can also chance the name and location of the files used by EXMERGE by clicking on the “File Names” button.

         

          Click on Next.

 

11. After pressing Next the process will begin. This could take a considerable about of time depending on how many mailboxes you've selected and the size of the mailboxes.

          Notice an example of a successful process:

         

          If you get a window that states that there were one or more failures, see below: then it's probably because of wrong permissions on the destination mailboxes.

         

 

Mailbox Restore

1.    You can run EXMERGE in normal mode and select the .PST data by a range of dates or other criteria and restore them directly to any production mailbox.

OR

2.    You can copy the .PST file to the user’s local disk or make it available on a network share. Then, instruct the user to add Personal Folders to their Outlook Profile and add the .PST file when they do so. The user can then browse through the .PST file’s contents and retrieve the messages they are looking for.

 

Regards,

Amit Tank| MCSA 2003 - Messaging | Amit...@GMail.Com

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