Restoring Exchange 2007 to a Recovery Storage Group / merging mailboxes

Hi all,

After hours of head banging and hair tearing, we’ve discovered how to restore Exchange 2007 storage groups to a recovery storage group from a VSS backup. [Doing it from a streaming backup – eg. ntbackup is different.] From a RSG, you can merge individual mailboxes back to the live storage group.

Unfortunately this hasn’t documented by Microsoft, so it took some experimenting to get it to work. 🙂

HOWTO: Restore Exchange 2007 from Windows Server Backup
http://www.wbadmin.info/articles/howto-exchange-2007-restore.html

HOWTO: Restore Exchange 2007 to a RSG
http://www.wbadmin.info/articles/howto-restoring-exchange-2007-storage-groups-server-2008.html

HOWTO: Merge mailboxes from RSG to live SG
http://www.wbadmin.info/articles/howto-merging-exchange-2007-mailboxes-with-recovery-storage-group.html

Enjoy,

Linus

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