Justin,

On the attributes page of the policy if you have "Enable granular restore" 
checked, and if the DB backup completed without errors you should be able to 
open the DB backup and browse through it.  However if that is not the case then 
you have some interesting times ahead. Yes, you can do all sorts of strange and 
exotic Exchange things, or you could invest around $400 in a software package 
called  Kernel for Exchange Server Recovery.  This allows you to parse through 
exchange EDB files and export to a PST. Using that you can restore the EDB 
anywhere you want and plunder through it. 

David Spearman
County of Henrico

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin 
Piszcz
Sent: 08 August, 2010 05:32 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Email restore using NBU?? Please help!! :(



On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Tony1100 wrote:

> I am desperate so any help is much appreciated!  I have a user that needs her 
> Sent Items restored from X date.  I'm a bit new to mail restores and have an 
> inherited infrastructure I'm still trying to learn everything.
> Master is Veritas Netbackup 6.5.4
> Exchange 2007 on W2k8 server with about 6 storage groups
>
> Our backup policy for this Exchange server is set for all "Microsoft 
> Information Store".
This backs up the entire exchange system as a whole and not individual
mailboxes, likewise you need to do the same when you restore.

>
> To restore this users Sent Items...  Do I have to restore an entire mailstore 
> (~100GB) which would take probably 12 hrs.  Then merge the db, etc, etc to 
> retrieve the specific user mailbox and folder??  :(
Yes, restore to the Recovery Storage Group, make sure you have one setup first.

>
> Or is there an easier way using Netbackup to just restore the mailbox or even 
> the folder?  If so, could someone point me to the steps for this??
Not that I am aware of.

Justin.

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