Greetings everyone, I have a file level backup of my exchange 2003 databases made several months ago. Is it possible to perform a restore using these files ? Does exchange files uses tombstones as AD -60 days max...?? Thanks Darren
Hi, By file level you mean a backup of the unmounted databases? It should be possible to copy these files over the existing database files and have the databases mounted. Unless you have all transaction logs from the date of the offline backup you will loose all changes made since the backup. Before doing the restore you should move all databases and all transaction logs away from their current location. Leif "Darren" <Darren@somewhere.com(Don't Spam)> wrote in message news:eFZQvcCjGHA.4368@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Greetings everyone, > I have a file level backup of my exchange 2003 databases made several > months ago. Is it possible to perform a restore using these files ? Does > exchange files uses tombstones as AD -60 days max...?? > > Thanks > Darren > >
In news:eFZQvcCjGHA.4368@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl, Darren <Darren@somewhere.com(Don't Spam)> typed: > Greetings everyone, > I have a file level backup of my exchange 2003 databases made several > months ago. Is it possible to perform a restore using these files ? > Does exchange files uses tombstones as AD -60 days max...?? > > Thanks > Darren In addition to Leif's reply, you might find this handy- http://www.quest.com/recovery_manager_for_exchange
Thanks,,, "Leif Pedersen [MVP]" wrote in message news:uwrFJXIjGHA.3408@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > By file level you mean a backup of the unmounted databases? > > It should be possible to copy these files over the existing database files > and have the databases mounted. > > Unless you have all transaction logs from the date of the offline backup > you will loose all changes made since the backup. > > Before doing the restore you should move all databases and all transaction > logs away from their current location. > > Leif > > > "Darren" <Darren@somewhere.com(Don't Spam)> wrote in message > news:eFZQvcCjGHA.4368@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> Greetings everyone, >> I have a file level backup of my exchange 2003 databases made several >> months ago. Is it possible to perform a restore using these files ? Does >> exchange files uses tombstones as AD -60 days max...?? >> >> Thanks >> Darren >> >> > >
