Uh Oh, Public Folders gone, I'm in trouble now!
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I feel your pain, the last time I did this it was for a small business, who kept all their data in emails or public folders, both of which went kaputski on an SBS2003R2 box.
Days of messing around with the priv and pub edb files and I managed to re-mount them with about 90-95% data integrity.
After that I convinced them to spend on three things: Two individual servers (DC and Exchange), BACKUP, and Sharepoint.
Days of messing around with the priv and pub edb files and I managed to re-mount them with about 90-95% data integrity.
After that I convinced them to spend on three things: Two individual servers (DC and Exchange), BACKUP, and Sharepoint.
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Could be a stupid question - any of this backed up before you started ??
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Thought so - lesson no.1 before a major change, back EVERYTHING UP
Some good thoughts from those trying to help tho
Yes it can. I have used that tool to bring deleted PFs back.
ok, so here's what I did:
Used PFDavAdmin to look at the Exchange 2007 box. It could see the deleted PFs but kept throwing errors when I tried to recover the folders. PFDavAdmin can't connect to a 2010 box as 2010 doesn't use WebDav so I googled and found ExFolders which is an unsupported port of PFDavAdmin for Exchange 2010.
It must be run from the Exchange servers BIN folder. I ran it up, found the parent PF in the 2010 database and recovered.
A few anxious egg timer moments later, and a bit of RowShamBo and bingo bongo, they were all back.
Result
I want to say a massive thankyou to Paradigm, again for his help. Hopefully ExFolders will help someone out here in the future.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/12/04/453399.aspx
Used PFDavAdmin to look at the Exchange 2007 box. It could see the deleted PFs but kept throwing errors when I tried to recover the folders. PFDavAdmin can't connect to a 2010 box as 2010 doesn't use WebDav so I googled and found ExFolders which is an unsupported port of PFDavAdmin for Exchange 2010.
It must be run from the Exchange servers BIN folder. I ran it up, found the parent PF in the 2010 database and recovered.
A few anxious egg timer moments later, and a bit of RowShamBo and bingo bongo, they were all back.
Result
I want to say a massive thankyou to Paradigm, again for his help. Hopefully ExFolders will help someone out here in the future.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/12/04/453399.aspx
Glad you got it sorted
Seems it's my day for Exchange issues, the Client Access server stopped responding, followed by the Information Store service falling over along with the Replication service on one of my DAG members (the one that holds the old public store no less), creating a problem where the Client Access/Hub Transport box can no-longer access any information store... joy.
Seems it's my day for Exchange issues, the Client Access server stopped responding, followed by the Information Store service falling over along with the Replication service on one of my DAG members (the one that holds the old public store no less), creating a problem where the Client Access/Hub Transport box can no-longer access any information store... joy.