Restore Exchange 2003 database to exchange 2010 using backup exec 2010

Hi, 

I need to restore exchange 2003 database using backup exec 2010 server into Exchange 2010 server. 

The exchange 2003 server is long gone but i need to restore its database from backup exec to exchange 2010. 

How could i do this any one help please. 

soft kitty 

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July 30th, 2013 9:39pm

Hi,

This is really a Symantec specific product question. I'm not aware of a way to perform this from within BackupExec, I would highly suggest you forward the question through to the Symantec community on the Symantec Connect website: http://www.symantec.com/connect/

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July 31st, 2013 2:45am

Hi

It isn't possible to restore databases across different versions of Exchange so you would need to either resurrect your 2003 server or get Symantec to restore the just EDB file and use a 3rd party tool (not cheap unfortunately) to recover the data.

Steve

July 31st, 2013 3:05am

  1. Steve is correct that you cannot restore a 2003 DB to a 2010 Exchange server
  2. However you might be able to redirect the restore of the files to disk as outlined here http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH87383
  3. Once you get the EDB, STM and logs to disk check out Lucid8's DigiScope http://www.lucid8.com/product/digiscope.asp which has the ability to open any offline Exchange Database so that you can Browse, Search, Export Mailboxes, Folders and Items to PST & MSG or to Recover/Import/Migrate data directly from any Offline Exchange database to ANY Production Exchange server, even cross version i.e. 2003 --> 2007 --> 2010 --> 2013 etc.
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July 31st, 2013 5:33pm

Steve and Troy have nailed it.  Troy's suggestions are absolutely co

August 2nd, 2013 4:11pm

thanks troy for the response. 

I have check but the backups are not GRT or non-GRT snapshot. 

cheers

Kitty 

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August 2nd, 2013 9:21pm

Kitty, the backups do not need to a GRT backup, you just need a good database backup and if you follow the instructions it will just recover the database files to disk.  Once those database files are on disk you can use DigiScope http://www.lucid8.com/product/digiscope.asp to open the database to get to all the mailboxes, folders and individual items
August 2nd, 2013 11:11pm

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