Exchange 2007 Recovery Storage Group & DPM restore
Count me as one who hates the interfaces/tools of Exchange 2007. Everything is more opaque, more difficult and more obtuse.I was simply trying to restore one mailbox from a DPM backup to the Recovery Storage Group. I got the database, mounted it, but when executing the restore-mailbox command it claims to not find the username in the mailbox. Here is what I attempted, with the real database name replaced with "database" and the user's name replaced with "username": restore-mailbox -identity blackhole -RSGDatabase "EMAIL2\Recovery Storage Group\database" -RSGMailbox username TargetFolder inbox Restore-Mailbox : The specified mailbox "username" does not exist on database "EMAIL2\Recovery Storage Group\database".I also tried to use the Disaster Recovery tool from the GUI to restore directly to the user's new mailbox, but still got an error that it couldn't find the username.My frustration is further exacerbated by having not found a way to be able to peek into the RSG database. I even tried to dismount the database edb file and look at it with a hex editor, but the OS says it is in use and won't let me touch it. I will try the restore from DPM yet again, but not being able to see what is in the RDB is maddening.So in all of this mess, I can't be sure of what DPM restored becuase Exchange 2007 tools have no provision that I can find to even see what is there.Does someone know another way to do this?SnoBoy
May 8th, 2009 7:14pm

hi snoboy, I feel you frustration, but in return we got a really awesome product with amazing performance..and a whole lot more :) anywayz, as for the RSG, you've missed something the syntax ! (in the powershell cmdlet you've pasted here anywayz) should be : Restore-Mailbox -RSGMailbox 'blackhole' -RSGDatabase 'recover\Mailbox Database' -id 'targetmailbox' -TargetFolder 'blackhole Recover' -Verbose To see some info about the available mailboxes in RSG: Get-MailboxStatistics -database recover\"Mailbox Database" hope you'll get it now. MCSA Messaging
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May 8th, 2009 9:49pm

The gotcha for me was that the mailbox name was not the user's login id, but was their full name! I also had a bit of confusion as to the target directory - it needed to be a non-standard foldername. It is all good now and I am writing up my documentation so that it will be much easier the next time around.SnoBoy
May 8th, 2009 11:10pm

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