I was about to give step-by-step info but realized that that does not put bread on the table.
My services are available at $225/hr plus T&E. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 1:57 PM Subject: Restoring an old (no longer existing) server > Current setup: > - Exchange 2000 sp2 on mailbox servers and a single 5.5 sp4 IMC > server > - Currently using NTBackup for backups and Antigen 6.5 for > virus/content filtering > > I was just informed that, due to a lawsuit, I must restore an old 5.5 server > that no longer exists and restore the entire database (not brick-level) for > a period of about different 8 months. I have the databases on a month-end > tape from each of those months and those tapes were made use ArcServe. I > also have long since reused that server. Once the database is restored on > the new server, I must then go through every email from every user and > search for text in either the subject AND the body. After this is done for > one month I'm to blow everything away and start all over again with the next > month's tape. > > My question is how in the hell am I going to accomplish this? Building the > server and recreating the Exchange environment is easy enough but I'm > confused on the restore and the searching parts. If I have to buy something > like Trend for the searching I guess it could be done and charged to the > client but I prefer not to. As for the backups, since I cannot bring this > server onto our network and the backup server that has ArcServe is obviously > on the network, how do I do this? My best guess is to use a cross-connect > cable and bring the backup server offline during the restore time. Any > other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. > > David Michel > Ruden McClosky Smith Schuster & Russell, P.A. > > > > NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachment to this e-mail message > contains confidential information that may be legally privileged. If you are > not the intended recipient, you must not review, retransmit, convert to hard > copy, copy, use or disseminate this e-mail or any attachments to it. If you > have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by return > e-mail or by telephone at 954-764-6660 and delete this message. Please note > that if this e-mail message contains a forwarded message or is a reply to a > prior message, some or all of the contents of this message or any > attachments may not have been produced by Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster, > & Russell, P.A. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
