Deleted Email Question

Hi,

I am running SBS2003 Premium with Exchange 03 SP2, and I have a query. I
have a user who has deleted an email 28 days ago from his inbox and deleted
items. Backup on tape is taken every night, so this has skipped the tape
backup.

What I am asking is that is it possible to recover the email. the deletion
retention (days) is set to 7.

Please help.

Thanks.

S

Karan
Tue May 09 07:38:36 CDT 2006

Hi,

There is only one way to recover the email now that is to replay the
exchange transaction log files again. You need to have all the log files
till date. If you take a Full backup of exchange then it would remove the
all the log files too.

Karan Rustagi

"Skc" <Skc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E74EBAB3-E47A-4521-9304-3657DAD1A65B@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am running SBS2003 Premium with Exchange 03 SP2, and I have a query. I
> have a user who has deleted an email 28 days ago from his inbox and
> deleted
> items. Backup on tape is taken every night, so this has skipped the tape
> backup.
>
> What I am asking is that is it possible to recover the email. the
> deletion
> retention (days) is set to 7.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> S

Steve
Tue May 09 09:26:50 CDT 2006

Skc wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am running SBS2003 Premium with Exchange 03 SP2, and I have a query. I
>have a user who has deleted an email 28 days ago from his inbox and deleted
>items. Backup on tape is taken every night, so this has skipped the tape
>backup.

The item in question would have been backed up to tape with the mailbox
even after deletion, until the retention period expired.

>What I am asking is that is it possible to recover the email. the deletion
>retention (days) is set to 7.

You would need a tape from any time before the deletion up to deletion
date + 7. Then you'd create a Recovery Storage Group (RSG) in Exchange,
and perform a normal Exchange Restore (it'll be redirected to the RSG
automatically). You can then use exmerge agaisnt the RSG to retrieve the
one item and then delete the RSG.

Alternatively, if you have message journalling turned on, or a 3rd-party
archival program, you'd refer to those (you do, right?).

--
Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
---------------------------------------
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Steve
Tue May 09 10:43:17 CDT 2006

The answers you received are fine. In the future, however, you'll get a
better response for SBS 2003 questions from the appropriate newsgroup:
microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

"Skc" <Skc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E74EBAB3-E47A-4521-9304-3657DAD1A65B@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am running SBS2003 Premium with Exchange 03 SP2, and I have a query. I
> have a user who has deleted an email 28 days ago from his inbox and
> deleted
> items. Backup on tape is taken every night, so this has skipped the tape
> backup.
>
> What I am asking is that is it possible to recover the email. the
> deletion
> retention (days) is set to 7.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> S

k
Sun May 14 09:22:33 CDT 2006

Hi ,

We are installing SBS2003 Server , We are facing messaging and
coroboration error while installing exhange sp2 also we are not able to
sent mail to other doamin eg. yahoo.com etc, as it is giving replay
error while sending internal mailing is working fine..can u pls help
me.


Skc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running SBS2003 Premium with Exchange 03 SP2, and I have a query. I
> have a user who has deleted an email 28 days ago from his inbox and deleted
> items. Backup on tape is taken every night, so this has skipped the tape
> backup.
>
> What I am asking is that is it possible to recover the email. the deletion
> retention (days) is set to 7.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> S