Comments on: Exchange 2007 Recovery Storage Group

By: Exchange Genie

Exchange Genie — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:41:06 +0000

Yes you can use any exchange aware backup software.. I only restored to the origianl server the system is smaart enough to know that it needed to go to the RSG.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:50:29 +0000

Awesome tutorial!

two questions:
1. Would this work the same way when using Backup Exec with the redirect to RSG option, instead of NTBackup?
2. One thing i dont quite get. You restore to original location(first storage group), yet the data goes to the recovery database? is this just something that is built in, or am I missing something?

By: Exchange Genie

Exchange Genie — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:27:26 +0000

I would have to look in the gui and test since its been some time since I have worked with 2007 however you can do this from the shell which you can see in the blog posting.

By: louiebenzon

louiebenzon — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:03:55 +0000

Nice article.

Is there a way to specify a different location where the RSG is created?

I’ve tried setting in ExTRA but am unable to since it keeps on looking for an existing database file.

- louie

By: Exchange Genie

Exchange Genie — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:00:55 +0000

Could you walk me through your scenario that you are trying to do… Is there a particular reason why you want to do this in a differnt AD environment? What are you descibing is how it was done before we had RSG, in Exchange 2000 you would setup a recovery forest to restore to.

By: Exchange Genie

Exchange Genie — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:59:05 +0000

I am curious why you would wont to exclude those mailboxes as there are still functional mailboxes and would be aport of the count?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:31:55 +0000

Great article but a quick question, if I have a clean shutdown database (mailbox.edb) on a backup which I can restore to a different domain’s exchange server’s hard disk

can I then create the rsg and restore some mailboxes out of it

Exchange 2007 edb, server 2008, different domain

any thoughts ?

Keep up the writing work as your site is full of great articles.
Kind Regards

By: Cesar

Cesar — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:08:25 +0000

Awesome tutorial, worked perfect for me

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By: Exchange_Genie

Exchange_Genie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:14:00 +0000

out of the box no, however 3rd part tools like quest can assist. In Windows 7 (next windows release) you will be able to recover deleted objects from AD without 3rd party.