Orin, I can confirm, what Bill has already told you, from first-hand experience using TDP for Exchange in W2K3 environment that it works flawlessly.
You do not need to setup another temp. box to do that, this is the main purpose of RSG in W2K3! You do not need to dismount any production stores while your restoring either. Your time to recover a single mailbox depends on how big is your mailbox store which contains the mailbox. Once you have restored it to RSG you can either merge that data the data from that mailbox into the production or export it as a PST to open separately. These links may be of help to you: http://hellomate.typepad.com/exchange/2003/12/the_recovery_st.html http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/ue2k3 rsg.mspx ______________ Khalid B. Khan -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Orin Rehorst Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:50 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Way to redirect a TSM Data Protection for Exchange restore to an alternate location? 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: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 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" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 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
