Comments on: Restoring a Mailbox from an Exchange Server 2013 Recovery Database

By: P Henry

P Henry — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:46:15 +0000

Paul,

I was wondering if it is possible to restore a mailbox to a different exchange server for disaster recovery purposes. We have two Exchange 2013 servers in two different sites. They are both backed up every night. If one of the sites went down permanently (or for an extended period of time), would we be able to restore the mailboxes from that server to the other one?

Thanks,
P Henry

By: Jerome Buenavista

Jerome Buenavista — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 09:06:02 +0000

Hi sir i read the article from your post it is very helpful to restore email, may i also ask if it is also possible if the one that restoring is from a dead server trying to retrieve sent items email from exchanger outlook the owa, appreciated if can share some information of how to restore it,thank you in advance.

By: maxwell

maxwell — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:19:56 +0000

Hi there

This was very helpful in helping me restore a db, thank you

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 22:39:56 +0000

In reply to Otmane.

Yes. Refer to my example in the post where I restore only the Sent Items, and the New-MailboxRestoreRequest doco on TechNet that explains the use of the IncludeFolders switch for restoring a specific folder.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff829875(v=exchg.160).aspx

By: Otmane

Otmane — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:42:23 +0000

Hello,

Great article thank you, I have a question, my users allways create subfolder so they can do some classification of the email. It happen tha we lost one of those folders. is there a way to recover a specific folder inside the mailbox.

Thank you

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 01:52:33 +0000

In reply to Matt.

Documentation includes the ConflictResolutionOption parameter.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff829875(v=exchg.160).aspx

The question is whether the behavior it describes fits your own perception of how it should behave, which is not always the case. But your test will clarify that.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:26:16 +0000

In reply to Paul Cunningham. yep. that is what I am going to do. Just curious if someone had experience and knows the outcome. You would think that TechNet would say this command will merge or replace.

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 23:51:04 +0000

In reply to Matt Hall. If you're ever unsure about things like this then the correct approach is to set up a test case and do a test.

By: Matt Hall

Matt Hall — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:59:52 +0000

I have a user that had various email removed from various folders. I want to restore all of her email from the night of a backup without interrupting the mail she has received since the backup.

When I restore the data from previous date does it simply merge in the emails they deleted on accident from various folders, or will it replace the mailbox and all emails it received prior. My gut says merge, but don’t want to find out the hard way.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:46:37 +0000

A user have

Inbox – 9000 emails
InboxPM – 50 emails
InboxPM2 – 20 emails
InboxPM3 – 10 emails
etc etc etc

How I can recover only subfolders and not the Inbox content?

I mean: I don’t need the 9000 emails from Inbox, only the 50 + 20 + 10 from the PM folders.

Can I exclude INBOX and include PM subfolders? Can I use wildcards?