>From the uninitiated, what is the procedure for restoring an individual
>mailbox from a backup made with the TDP client? My customer says he
>can't figure it out from the GUI, and I don't have access.
Jim - Have your customer refer to the TDP manual. Appendix B talks
about individual mail
Jim,
Along with your the other responses, take a look at
Appendix B of the User's Guide. It has a section titled:
"Individual Mailbox Restore".
Keep in mind that unless you want to restore the
entire Information Store (Exchange 5.5) or the
entire database (Exchange 2000), it requires
an alternat
The steps are as follows,
1. Install the TSM exchange agent software onto a different/new exchange
server.
2. Configure the DSM.OPT file to be the sever that you need to restore.
Eg(the name of the server that has the mail box)
3. Restore the exchange private store to the new exchange server, usi
Jim,
In a meeting about a year ago we were told that you could do this, if
Microsoft would create an API.
You may want to check in that direction. At that time there was no API, but
things may have changed.
Sorry I don't have a lot of help.
John Pimentel, Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
-Origin
You are correct that there is no functionality in Exchange to do this.
Microsoft's solution for individual mailbox restores is to restore the
entire database to a separate machine and export the mailbox. I believe that
Arcserve claims to have the ability to do this "bricks level" backup and
restor