The purpose of the Recovery Storage Group was to allow for this restore to happen without overwritting the production data. It sounds like your afraid to use the Recovery Storage group as it was meant to be used. I've done it many times for my customers. Make sure you read the MS doc on how to create a recovery storage group. Then as long as one exists when you use the TDP for Exchange to recover the mailstore file it will go to the recovery storage group. I believe the safty net is that if you don't configure the recovery storage group correctly then you a pop up comes up stating that the Exchange database that you are trying to recovery is online and it asks you if you want to have it stopped. If you get that just click no. Also, as a result it is a good idea to just make sure Exchange is running before you start the restore. Creating the recovery storage group and then adding a mailstore to it is pretty simple. You can then use exmerge to move mail items from the recovery storage group to the production storage group.
Orin Rehorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We are trying to recover a single mailbox. We don't want to write over the data store and loose current data. We would like to use Exchange 2003 Recovery Storage Group. But we're afraid the restore will write over current data. Our current plan is to set up a temporary Exchange server, restore the TDP back there, and export the mailbox. Our tech support company estimates 20 hours for that job. Your comments would be appreciated. PS. It looks like I need to go to a brick level backup solution, don't you think? Regards, Orin Rehorst -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Way to redirect a TSM Data Protection for Exchange restore to an alternate location? Orin, By default, Data Protection for Exchange will restore data back into the live Exchange Server and into the original storage group and database. The Microsoft Exchange Server requires that the database be dismounted for this operation. If that is not what you want, it would help to understand what exactly you are trying to do. Are you trying to restore in to an Exchange 2003 Recovery Storage Group? Are you trying to restore to a different server? Do you just want to restore the .EDB, .STM, and .LOG files so that you can manipulate them with 3rd-party tools? Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 10/26/2006 05:14:37 PM: > Is there a way to redirect a TSM Data Protection for Exchange restore to > an alternate location? When I try a restore TSM first asks to close the > datastore. > > TIA > Orin Rehorst --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited Try it today.
