On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:

I need to recover data from an Exchnage Database (.edb) which has become too large to successfuly restore from back. So my idea is to recover the mailboxes separately and have them mounted on the user's computers as archives.

The database is exteremely huge (200 GB), and yah, I know, I should have been wiser but now I need a solution. Anyone with some tools that can just extract this data.

In happier days I would have just let the whole thing go but now the Chief of Staff is breathing down my neck.

@Philip, our support enviroment is silly sometimes and unrealistic. You can have management wanting backups and the usual blah blah blah while not doing the policy controls in the first place. How many of those emails for users are legit official mails? I'm sure you know that 90% is the usual forwarding crap that users like to forward or receive each day. Email facilties are out of control when it comes to users because at the end of 2010, that Db size is going to grow even more. Localising it on user machines is going to be even more crazier.

Solution : You need to look at the mail traffic headers and start enforcing certain mail policies but you will need management support for this. If they don't listen, please add budgets to get segmenting/load balacing servers to feed their spam needs, including a major upgrade of internet bandwidth to accomodate. Strange that the financial angle wakes management up. Spam costs money! You need some house cleaning.... :-)

Me thots.