They use *.OST extensions. The problem is this is just raw data so when you restore their Mailboxes I think you need to import the data from the OST file. I am not sure because I do full system state backups of my exchange server. I know you have to be real careful. Check this site out... http://searchexchange.techtarget.co...

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Those OST files will only be present on the client computers, no? In that case, the tape backup of the servers won't contain the OST files... -Ryan Adams Free Computer Tips and more:http://RyanTAdams.com Paid Tech Support: Black Diamond

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OST or PST? I thought it was PST. How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.

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It's neither. That's the point. OST and PST files reside on local computers (running Outlook). I'm trying to recover mailboxes from a tape backup of a Exchange Server. There are no PST/OST or any other files. The mailbox data is stored in the Exchange Database, which is backed up to tape. I'm trying ot figure out how to extract the mailbox data from this... -Ryan Adams Free Computer Tips and more:http://RyanTAdams.com Paid Tech Support: Black Diamond

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Re-reading the entire thread & doing some more searches, I think that the database you mentioned in response #6 would have an .edb file extension. http://www.ontrackpowercontrols.com... Click view the online demo, then product overview. How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.

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That does look like the exact solution I need. I didn't see a price, but what ever it is, it's probably too much to recover the 2-3 mailboxes. Now that I at least know it can be done, I'll look around for other alternatives. Any suggestions? -Ryan Adams Free Computer Tips and more:http://RyanTAdams.com Paid Tech Support: Black Diamond

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It took me long enough to find that one. I don't think you are going to find a free solution. The only other long shot I can think of, is to find a way to mount the tape drive on a Unix or Linux box. From there, maybe you can use ls -asl to list the files & maybe the strings command to find data that's mixed up with binary functions if the cat command doesn't work. How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.

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Ryan, If you're using BackupExec you may have an option to restore individual mailboxes and also there are options in BackupExec to redirect those restores to alternate mailboxes. I'm assuming you still have some exchange server or could mock up a simple server to restore these single mailboxes. I use this feature often to restore a mailbox that was backed up on one server to an alternate mailbox on a different server... then export as PST and delete. -Dillon

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You should be able to restore just the exchange databases, and then mount them in the recovery storage group on your existing Exchange server, and either export or move the mailboxes

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I have done it several times, and it's a bit tricky sometimes but it's doable without paying for it. I don't remember the exact procedure from the top of my head but I think the catch was the log files at some point, and you have to close the database (edb) file in order to mount it to an exchange server. There are tools for this, and once you have the proper commands it's no biggie. Do you still have this problem, or have you solved it? Give me a shout if you want some help, you'll be up and running within an hour.

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