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


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Khalid B. Khan

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Orin Rehorst
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:50 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT 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:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Del Hoobler
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:19 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT 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

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT 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