Hi,

I need some emails from a 2 year old backup. Can I mount the restored Exchange 2010 DB in my Exchange 2013 server?

Thanks

Hi.

It's impossible.
You can install Exchange 2010, the test area with the same name Exchange Organization, and restore the database. Or look for third-party software to work with data

I don't really have a test environment.

Can I setup an Exchange 2010 server in my production environment and restore the DB to a recovery DB on that?

Any risk in affecting production users who exists in the old backup 2010 DB and still exist in the 2013 production DB?

You can not install Exchange 2010 in an Exchange organization 2013, in which no one with Exchange 2010.

No support.

There are some tools you can try to extract data from the edb files but you'll need to search for these. The best method would be to set up a temporary test environment and restore the server and a DC/GC.

Thanks guys, downloaded Kernel for Exchange Server. Super easy and works great.

Hi,

You can try with recovery database, and do than a restore of the mail's that you want.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876954%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

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Glad you found a solution, however beware of the low cost products as the data you think you are getting could very well not be accurate or complete.  Obviously I am a competitor but we get calls all the time when customers of other products realize they don't have accurate complete data. There are really only 3 solutions that are accurate and complete in regards to data extraction/recovery on the market and they are Kroll, Quest/Dell and Lucid8's DigiScope

Thanks for the tips Troy. 

The one I tried only worked for a small DB actually, because its a 32bit process and it crashed at 2GB memory usage on a very large edb file. 

I managed to find a competitor 64bit product that worked for this time, but this one crashes constantly on previews and its outputs original HTML emails always as Rich Text.

Is yours 64bit? 

• The currently released version of DigiScope is a 32 bit process, however we have a 64 bit interpreter and it works without issue, i.e. we handle mult-terabyte DB's without issue all the time.   The only reason you would get a crash caused my memory limitation is if:

1. You had a folder with ton of items that exceeded memory availability, however we have a process that will stop the display all items if there are too many to show ( I think the limit is about 200K per folder) and then you can filter it to be below the level of concern i.e. dont display everything, instead just show the items that match a specific filter.

2. If there is some corruption in an item that is causing a problem and if so we should be able to ID and go around it using filters

• Regarding Output we export to MSG and PST OR you can recover/import/migrate the data directly from the offline EDB into any Production Server, Mailbox, PF etc