Hello,
I have an SBS server (SBS Server 2008 with exchange server 2007) which crashed due to a faulty UPS . (UPS kept on switching itself off).
This caused registry corruption with the SBS server and all attempts to recover it failed. So as it was urgent I decided to restore from the backup.
The backup was 2 days old as the previous night did not work for some reason.
Before I restored I made a manual back of the exchange directory.
The restore worked correctly but some of the exchange data was missing. (the day before the server crashed)
I would like to recover the missing mailbox data from the manual backup that I made and merge it into the current live database.
From what I have read I need to create a recovery storage group and from there I should be able to export data from the old database to the current. Do i have to use the exchange shell to do this or is there an easier way. Even if i export to a PST and then re import into outlook would be OK.
Alternatively if I just copied the backed up database and replaced the current live database would I then lose data since I did the recovery.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks