Exchange 5.5 Urgent Help

[The Frog Meister]

Hi guys.

Hows do I get back an inbox that has been deleted from Exchange 5.5?????

Thank you

Me

[fugjostle]

ho ho ho... hope it wasn't you that deleted it

Once you've deleted a mailbox its gone with the wind mate. You make regular backups of the mail servers right? Restore the backup to a standalone server and save the contents to a .pst or something.

If you don't do backups then consider this a lesson on why you should

Shame... cause if you used Exhange 2000 then there's a chance of recovery

oh well...

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fug

[The Frog Meister]

cheers mate..... no back ups The back up tape reader is jammed beyond jammed.... so no luck......

Oh well.... Cheers for the info

[Zoneraver]

No backups????

Shame on your bosses for not sorting it out lol


If you can spend time with the exchnage server down then you can take a manually backup of the server database files by stopping all exchange services

then search in the exchnage server folder for anything end in .EDB

youll find about 6 files on a folder called EDBDATA(Depending on server plugins)

The most important 2 (They are all vital anyway) are PRIV.EDB and PUB.EDB

PRIV.EDB is your users private emails
PUB.EDB is the public files


Just copy all of these files to a PC somewhere and keep it safe


This is only good for backing up and rescuing a whole server / corrupted exchange datbase not for individual mailboxes though


You could hope for a PST archive on the users workstation and recreate then users and import eveything back in

if you aint got that then its a horrible search throuygh the server archives as detailed in the other Exchange post