About restoring Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 data using the recovery storage group

The Recovery Storage Group (RSG) feature in Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 lets you to mount a second copy of an Exchange mailbox store on any Exchange server in the same Exchange Administrative Group as the original while the original store is still running and serving clients. This allows you to recover data from an older backup copy of the store without disturbing client access to current data. See your Microsoft Exchange documentation for instructions on creating the recovery storage group and adding the mailbox stores you want to restore to it.

After the RSG is created and one or more stores are added to it, you can restore online backup sets to it. Then you can use the version of the EXMerge utility in Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 to extract mailbox data from the stores into .PST files, and optionally merge the extracted data back into the online stores.

If the RSG resides on a different Exchange server than the databases you are restoring, you should review the requirements for redirecting the restore of Exchange storage groups.

See About redirecting Exchange storage group and database restores.

Following are requirements for restoring Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 data using the Recovery Storage Group (RSG):

Refer to your Microsoft Exchange Server documentation for more information on the requirements and restrictions of recovering Exchange data using the RSG.

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