Backup Exec wizards in here please

Guest2 · 22 Sep 2009 at 12:34

We have connected an old tape drive and ive built a server with 2003 on. I have setup backup exec and its found the HP backup drive and all the information on the tape.

Is there any way to get the information from the tape to computer hard drive without joining our existing domain and using old usernames, passwords etc.

Seems stupid i can see the data on the tape but cannot get it off without going through a load of trouble. I dont even think we have the old username/passwords used to backup

Thanks

Guest2 · 22 Sep 2009 at 14:32

Done it for data but its an exchange mailbox that needs restoring, so im guessing it will need linking up to exchange

Knubje · 22 Sep 2009 at 16:13

Guest2 said:
Done it for data but its an exchange mailbox that needs restoring, so im guessing it will need linking up to exchange

Any exchange server mailbox should do, regardless of domain. IIRC. If so is it not possible to create an empty "test" mailbox and just restore the mailbox from there using the redirect feature in Backup Exec?

Guest2 · 22 Sep 2009 at 17:00

At the moment its setup and in backup exec with the defaults, the drive is detected and it has a tape in there. I can restore data but get the message 'Restore 0026 -- The job failed with the following error: Unable to attach to one of the drives.' when trying to do a mailbox restore

In tools > options > job defaults > exchange all the stuff is greyed out, same for SQL

Dangerous · 22 Sep 2009 at 17:03

Guest2 said:
At the moment its setup and in backup exec with the defaults, the drive is detected and it has a tape in there. I can restore data but get the message 'Restore 0026 -- The job failed with the following error: Unable to attach to one of the drives.' when trying to do a mailbox restore

In tools > options > job defaults > exchange all the stuff is greyed out, same for SQL

Have you got the Exchange and SQL licences?

Guest2 · 22 Sep 2009 at 17:12

Dangerous said:
Have you got the Exchange and SQL licences?

Yes. I am trying to restore a mailbox but do not really want it connected to our current exchange server. Is this possible? I think i also need to run the logon account wizard but am unsure what the password was from when it was originally setup

Dangerous · 22 Sep 2009 at 17:15

Guest2 said:
Yes. I am trying to restore a mailbox but do not really want it connected to our current exchange server. Is this possible? I think i also need to run the logon account wizard but am unsure what the password was from when it was originally setup

From my version 11d you have to restore exchange to exchange - You can redirect to a new temp server but it has to have exchange installed on there.

You will need the local Admin account yes.

Guest2 · 22 Sep 2009 at 17:20

Dangerous said:
From my version 11d you have to restore exchange to exchange - You can redirect to a new temp server but it has to have exchange installed on there.

You will need the local Admin account yes.

Im using version 9.1 on testserver. Just found this...

Requirements for Using the Exchange Agent with Exchange 2000 and 2003
The following are required for the Exchange Agent in Exchange 2000 and Exchange Server 2002 installations:

The media server must have access to the Exchange Server.
To use Backup Exec's Resource Discovery feature, which allows detection of new backup resources within a Windows domain, you must install Microsoft's Exchange System Manager utility on the media server. The media server must be running Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003.

Looks like 9.1 also needs access to exchange server. I wonder if you can just setup a dummy exchange server instead of using a real one. Settings may have to be how they were when it was originally backed up though?

PR. · 22 Sep 2009 at 23:19

Don't suppose you backed up the edb files?

We wanted to do a similar thing and my boss believed it was possible to poke around the edb file with a seperate app to get what we wanted. As it turned out I don't backup the edb files only the mail store and after 30mins trying to get it to restore to a new mail store we gave up.

Guest2 · 24 Sep 2009 at 10:00

When i go to restore from resourse i can only see data from the fileserver, SQL C: and under the Exchange server just 'Microsoft information store\First storage group' and 'Shadow copy components'

Inside the first storage group there is just mailbox store and public folder store...

So it other words, doesnt look like we do. Look like im going to need to connect it to exchange, somehow get the username and password from when it was originally backed up and restore it to an existing store. sorry.

What would my first steps be in hooking it up to exchange. do i need to install exchange system manager on the test server? if so then what are my first steps?