HI Wazaru,
Welcome to SBS newsgroup.
Issue description:
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I understand that you want to know more exactly about the RSG function on
the Exchange restore process.
Analyzing and suggestion:
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Generally speaking, the RSG should be used in the restore process, and the
recovery storage group did not store any backup information, it just try to
restore the mailbox from a good backup. For your convenience, I suggest you
refer to the article below, it should be helpful for you to understand more
clearly about backup and restore Exchange database.
823176 HOW TO: Recover or Restore a Single Mailbox in Exchange Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823176
Backup: If you do not have a good backup of your original server, please
follow the backup steps to backup the server data.
1. Open ''''Exchange System Manager'''', navigate to
''''Servers''''\<Server Name>\''''First Storage Group''''\''''Mailbox
Store''''. Right-click it and choose ''''Properties''''. In the properties
window, click ''''database'''' tab. Write down the path of the database
file and streaming file. Also check the path of the public folder database
files.
2. Open ''''Services'''' console in ''''Administrative Tools''''. Stop
''''Microsoft Exchange Information Store'''' service. If the exchange
database files are stored in the default path (c:\program
files\Exchsrvr\mdbdata\), open Windows Explorer, navigate to the Exchange
database folder, and then save the .edb files and .stm files to a folder on
another disk partition or a shared folder on a internal workstation
Restore:
1. Create new user accounts (duplicate the original accounts) by using Add
Users Wizard.
2. Open Services Console, stop ''''Microsoft Exchange Information Store''''
service. Open ''''Exchange System Manager'''', navigate to
''''Servers''''\<Server Name>\''''First Storage Group''''. Right-click it
and choose ''''Properties''''. Select the database folder. (The original
database files should be copied to this folder).
3. Open Exchange System Manager. Navigate to ''''Servers''''\<Server
Name>\''''First Storage Group''''\''''Mailbox Store''''. Right-click it and
choose ''''Properteis''''. Click ''''Database'''' tab and check ''''This
database can be overwritten by a restore'''' option. Also check this option
for ''''Public folder store''''.
4. Open Services console, start ''''Microsoft Exchange Information
Store'''' service. In Exchange System Manager console, right-click
''''Mailbox store'''' and choose ''''Mount Store''''. Also mount the public
folder store.
5. In Exchange System Manager Console, expand ''''Mailbox Store''''.
Right-click ''''Mailboxes'''' folder and choose ''''Run Cleanup Agent''''.
After doing this, you will see the mailboxes with red crosses in the right
panel. Right-click each mailbox and choose ''''Reconnect''''. Connect the
mailboxes to the current user accounts.
If you just want to migrate the mailbox on the old server to the new one,
you can follow use the exmerge to do the migration, it should be more
helpful to your situation, you can refer to the article below:
To use Exmerge, please visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=429163ec-dcdf-47dc-
96da-1c12d67327d5&displaylang=en
You can also use the migration wizard migrate the mailbox from other
Exchange server; please refer to the following article for more information:
328871 How to use the Exchange Migration Wizard to migrate mailboxes from an
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=328871
More info:
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327928 A comparison of the migration methods for migrating from Exchange
Server
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327928
Hope the above information helpful to your issue; please feel free to let
me know the results. I am glad to be of further assistance.
Best regards,
Charles Yang (MSFT)
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