[Veritas-bu] exchange 2003 public folder alternate restore

environment: netbackup 6.0mp4, redhat linux master/media, exchange 2003 client

my exchange admins need to restore the public folder (.edb?) file to an alternate machine without bringing up exchange. the netbackup gui only drills down to the storage group, and not the individual files. i believe that it used to show the files in exchange 2000, where you could see the priv and pub files, etc to choose what to restore. i think exchange 2003 hides this so that an exchange admin can easily restore to a "recovery storage group" for a normal exchange database. i don't deal with exchange, but our exchange admins say that public folders cannot be restored to an "rsg", and also cannot be restored to an alternate machine. if they can get the files restored as a flat file to another machine, they have tools that can extract the data they need. has anyone out there had to do this? can you let me know what procedures you did to accomplish this?

here is the structure that i see from the gui "dump"ed from the netbackup catalog information:

/Microsoft Information Store/ 16832 root root 0 1207265411 1207265411 1207265411
/Microsoft Information Store/XPF02_SG1/  16832 root root 0 1207265411 1207265411 1207265411
/Microsoft Information Store/XPF02_SG1/Public Folder Store (XPF02)  33216 root root 2106544426 1207265411 1207265411 1207265411
/Microsoft Information Store/XPF02_SG1/USHOUXPF02_SG1_MS1 33216 root root 1481789730 1207292814 1207292814 1207292814
/Microsoft Information Store/XPF02_SG1/Log files_1207265400  33216 root root 104858800 1207292886 1207292886 1207292886

the fields are: path, permissions?, owner, group, size, modified, changed, access times.

thanks in advance,

jerald

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