David, You could always purchase something like 'KVS Enterprise Vault' restore each backup and archive it to the Vault in turn and then use it's indexing search system (words or phrases) to locate information in body text and attachments.
Cheers Paul Standards are like toothbrushes, everybody agrees you should have one, but no one wants to use yours -----Original Message----- From: Michel, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 7:57 PM To: Exchange Discussions 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] ********************************************************************************************** The information contained in this message or any of its attachments may be confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). Any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited without the express permission of the sender. The views expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily those of Sony or Sony affiliated companies. Sony email is for business use only. This email and any response may be monitored by Sony United Kingdom Limited. (05) ********************************************************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ 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]
