That's what I thought might be the driving force... One issue related to this strategy is that if messages were sent via Bcc or to a DL it might not be possible to determine from a single PST file which mailbox contained the data in question.
I recently spent a boatload of time exploring similar restore scenarios... One relatively powerful and inexpensive[1] option to consider is using kvault for this task. [1] Inexpensive compared to the labor and time costs I estimated for the methodology you are currently employing. It also positions you well for future discovery. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 5:51 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Merge all Mailboxes to a single PST using Exmerge > > > Well I am doing a very large restore of emails that go back > two years. I extracted all the messages that have certain > words in the subject. Easy enough. But the lawyers would like > to know if we could put all the extracted messages in one pst > for each monthly restore. There are about 7 servers and with > two years of data that is alot of PST's. What they would > want is one PST for each monthly restore for each server. > Does that make sense. I told them it may not be possible. So > there you have it. They either open dozens of PST's that have > the subject data or one PST for each month. > > What a mess but it beats unemployment. Anyhow I am using > Backup Exec and Tivoli and most any combo of Exchange 5.5 > running on 2000 or NT4.0 you can think of. Plus we are > installing new servers and migrating to E2K. One thing is I > will cringe if anybody asks me if I ever did any disaster > recovery work. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Scharff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 11:57 AM > Subject: RE: Merge all Mailboxes to a single PST using Exmerge > > > > No, there's an option to do the opposite though. Given the > limits of > > PST files re: size and number of messages per folder the number of > > scenarios where that'd be useful seem somewhat limited. > What is it you > > are trying to achieve? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: EXTERN Hlabse Tony (Tek Systems;RBNA/CIT1) > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:43 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: Merge all Mailboxes to a single PST using Exmerge > > > > > > > > > > > > Fellow Admins. Is there away to run exmerge and put all of the > > > selected mailboxes messages into a single PST. If not, is there a > > > tool out there that will let you do that after you run Exmerge. I > > > have looked hard and couldn't find anything in the latest Exmerge > > > version's document. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > 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] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
