Hi all,

I have inherited an exchange 2003 server (I know it is EOL, but stuck with it for now) I have had a situation were there are 4 mailbox stores on a storage group and the HQ office has requested a mailbox restore from a year ago. There is a third party backup software which runs a full backup nightly onto tape, fortunately there are monthly tapes and I have located the relevant tape.

I recently ran a restore onto the recovery storage group of the mailbox store which I believe had required mailbox, however I set the restore job not to auto mount it, after the backup completed I got the following error in the application log when I tried to mount the mailstore in the RSG, eventid 619 source ESE. 

I have located a microsoft article that explains that the restore did not complete a hard recovery and this can be performed using the eseutil with the /cc switch. I have looked at the following articles in regards to using the /cc switch (hard recovery) - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa997478(v=exchg.65).aspx. 

My query is as follows: the restored job copied the .edb and .stm files to a single locate on the data drive and then the log files are on the same drive but a different folder. Also this server has 3 other storage groups each with 4 mailbox stores. Obviously one of these is the one in the RSG. If I run the eseutil /cc command against the stored mailbox store edb howe will this know where to replay the logs from, I just don't want it to relay anything from the live databases / logs

• Edited by mika_MCSE 11 hours 21 minutes ago