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Restoring Public Folders using Recovery storage group i... - 3.Jul.2008 2:11:05 PM

charliegadget

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Hi All

I am hoping you can help... We have a number of Public folders that are backed up daily by ntbackup. I am needing to recover a folder that someone deleted but I am having an issue.

I am creating a recovery storage group and selecting the Public folders during the creating of the recovery storage group, but on the next page of the wizard it shows the path to the system files and log files but the bit where it should show where the database files are going is just not there.,.. it is blank... it will let me create the recovery group but I cant restore in to it!

If i select any other mailbox databases, they are showing the database path correctly but the public folders arent!

Is there a know reason for this??

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Charlie

< Message edited by charliegadget -- 3.Jul.2008 2:12:29 PM >

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RE: Restoring Public Folders using Recovery storage gro... - 4.Jul.2008 6:05:18 PM

Sembee

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You can't use RSGs for Public Folders. If you want to do a restore you have to restore to another server in to a database and extract the content that you need to a PST to import back in to the live server.

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RE: Restoring Public Folders using Recovery storage gro... - 5.Jul.2008 12:01:02 PM

Exchange_Geek

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If its only about recovering deleted PF, work with PFDavAdmin - if your lucky you could get back all your data within minutes.

How to recover deleted public folders or items that are deleted from public folders by using the PFDAVAdmin tool in Exchange 2000 Server or in Exchange Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924044

Recovering Deleted Items in Exchange Server 2003 (Part 1)
www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Recovering-Deleted-Items-Exchange-Server-2003-Part1.html

Recovering Deleted Items in Exchange Server 2003 (Part 2)
www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Recovering-Deleted-Items-Exchange-Server-2003-Part2.html

P.S - PFDavAdmin wont work as you had with E2k7 since by default, SSL is checked on ExAdmin and Public folders virtual directories in IIS Console - uncheck them only for PFDavAdmin to work neatly. :)

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RE: Restoring Public Folders using Recovery storage gro... - 6.Jul.2008 5:43:30 PM

charliegadget

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Hi Guys,

Thanks very much for your input... It was just a deleted item so I used the "recover deleted items" feature in Outlook to recover it..

Sembee: Please could you give me more details about the recovery method you mentioned?? I am not sure how to recover it to a different server? Could you clarify?

Many thanks

Charlie

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RE: Restoring Public Folders using Recovery storage gro... - 7.Jul.2008 7:53:17 AM

Sembee

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Recovery of public folders has been the same method since Exchange 5.5. What is known as a Recovery Server. Another server, identical to the production server/domain, but isolated. You restore to that server, attach Outlook and extract what you need. Microsoft have never made public folder recovery easy because they seem intent on killing off public folders.

Simon.

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RE: Restoring Public Folders using Recovery storage gro... - 7.Jul.2008 1:50:38 PM