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restoring retained deleted from mailbox restore

Last Post 16 Aug 2011 02:13 PM by Will Horrow. 5 Replies.

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bjf

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12 Aug 2004 05:05 AM
Exchange 5.5 sp4. I have an employee who left the org months ago. Mailbox was deleted. I use brightstore 11 and do brick backups in addition to other types of backup. I have restored the mailbox. I was suprised that then when I log directly into the mailbox I didn't have anything in retained deleted items. I was able to get to the setting retained deleted items but it was clean. I do not think the person was savy enough to empty retained deleted or use shift delete. Am I wrong to think that I should have gotten retained deleted back? I am w/in the retained setting of 6 months. I have read that the retained deleted items are stored in hidden folders. Is this hidden folder a part of deleted folder for given mailbox? If someone could remind me how exactly those invisbile retained deleted items are stored, it would be much appreicated. Thanks. Bonnie

bjf

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13 Aug 2004 09:08 AM
Any suggstions for other forums where one might get responses to Exchange issues? Thanks.

neo27

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16 Aug 2004 10:24 AM
What I normally do is restore Exchange Info Store onto a spare machine and set DIR (deleted items retention) to some high numbers (perhaps 1-2 years). I've always been able to recover the deleted items. Here's a great Exchange newsgroup: Server name: msnews.microsoft.com Newsgroup: microsoft.public.exchange.admin

bjf

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19 Aug 2004 07:23 AM
Ok, I am doing an restore of information store to a spare machine. Brightstore backups information store for me so I can select. What I am wondering, can i restore this to a different site and organization or do I have to mirror that of the existing exchange server? thanks. bg

neo27

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19 Aug 2004 10:58 AM
to restore Info Store (IS only, no DS): - Exchange site name and org name must be exactly the same as production server site and org name - Server name does NOT have to be the same as the production server - Same level of patches (OS and Exchange) - Run DS/IS consistency adjuster after restoring from tapes

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