Restoring single Mailbox from Backup   

Hello!
I am using an Exchange2k enterprise wirh Outlook2k3.

While trying so solve another problem i deleted my whole inbox. But i 
have a backup of the exchange server of friday. The backup was made with 
the win2k server ms backup tool. Now i tried to restore my mailbox, but 
not the otherones. But i cannot finde the file (or directory) my mailbox 
is located in.

Any ideas?

Best regards, Enno Lenze

date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:03:34 +0200   author:   Enno Lenze

Re: Restoring single Mailbox from Backup   

You cannot selectively restore just your mailbox in Exchange 2000, you will 
have to restore the entire private mailbox store to recover your mailbox. 
In the process, you will also restore everyone elses mailbox back to last 
Friday.  The better method to restore your inbox is to turn on "deleted item 
retention" for you mailbox store.   Confirm this is set or not in ESM drill 
down to your Mailbox Store, right click properties and select Limits Tab. 
Under Deletion Settings what do you have set?

-- 
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2006
Microsoft Certified Partner

"Enno Lenze"  wrote in message 
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> Hello!
> I am using an Exchange2k enterprise wirh Outlook2k3.
>
> While trying so solve another problem i deleted my whole inbox. But i have 
> a backup of the exchange server of friday. The backup was made with the 
> win2k server ms backup tool. Now i tried to restore my mailbox, but not 
> the otherones. But i cannot finde the file (or directory) my mailbox is 
> located in.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best regards, Enno Lenze

date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:19:27 -0400   author:   John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]