Here is my situation. 1. I am using Exchange 2007. 2. I have a mailbox that is missing e-mails. 3. I use Backup Exec to restore the emails to a RSG (because there is a problem restoring directly to the mailboxes on win2008) 4. I mount the RSG and perform a Merge. 5. I look at the inbox in outlook and watch all the e-mails come back. 6. As soon as they are restored they disappear! they are not moved to deleted and there are no error logs. 7. I have tried to RSG recovery from the EMC and the command line. Any help is appreciated.

Hello Bob, Did you check in dumpster? If you can recover from there after they disappear. Make sure that mailbox doesnt have any rules configured to delete those. How to Recover a Deleted Item

I did not solve the problem, but I did find a work around. Here is what I did: 1. I used EMC to create a RSG 2. I used BackupExec to restore tot he RSG 3. I used EMC to mount the RSG. 4. I used the restore-mailbox cmdlet to restore what I wanted to a inbox sub-folder: Restore-mailbox usage: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125218(EXCHG.80).aspx Example: restore-mailbox -identity "myUser" -RSGDatabase "<server>\Recovery Storage Group\Mailbox Database" -TargetFolder "restore" After you hit enter the cmdlet will ask you for the Mailbox ID. There are several way to get this, I simply went into EMC | Toolbox | Database Recovery Management. I clicked on copy or merge, keep clicking next until you get a list of users. next to the users is the Mailbox ID. I typed in the mailbox id into the cmdlet and presto, all e-mails I needed were restored tot he sub-folder in my users inbox. -Robert