Exchange crash no backups except offline folders on Outlook

Aaron Tech · Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

Okay, first of all, this has not happened to me. I am just wondering if it
would be possible.

Say, if an exchange server crashes and there are no accessable backups. You
rebuild exchange 2003 and now you want to get all the mail back. That mail
is stored in the .ost files on Outlook under the old Exchange server
mailbox.

Best guess:
Open client, export everything to a .pst file and then import the .pst file
up to exchange?

Any better way?

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John Oliver, Jr. [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 823

Possible but I would not count on OST to PST file import as your backup
solution to recover mail, even in emergency cases.

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John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2008
Microsoft Certified Partner

"Aaron Tech" wrote in message %23dIHA.5620@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Okay, first of all, this has not happened to me. I am just wondering if
> it would be possible.
>
> Say, if an exchange server crashes and there are no accessable backups.
> You rebuild exchange 2003 and now you want to get all the mail back. That
> mail is stored in the .ost files on Outlook under the old Exchange server
> mailbox.
>
> Best guess:
> Open client, export everything to a .pst file and then import the .pst
> file up to exchange?
>
> Any better way?
>

John Fullbright · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 365

Third party tools like those mentioned in
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1448679 .

"Aaron Tech" wrote in message %23dIHA.5620@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Okay, first of all, this has not happened to me. I am just wondering if
> it would be possible.
>
> Say, if an exchange server crashes and there are no accessable backups.
> You rebuild exchange 2003 and now you want to get all the mail back. That
> mail is stored in the .ost files on Outlook under the old Exchange server
> mailbox.
>
> Best guess:
> Open client, export everything to a .pst file and then import the .pst
> file up to exchange?
>
> Any better way?
>

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