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This issue comes up from time to time, as I have a backed up database that is no longer in use to restore files from.  This can also be an issue if you need to export mail to PST for legal purposes.  You can use a Windows 7 32 bit installation with Exchange 2007 32 bit ESM and PowerShell to accomplish the command:

Export-Mailbox –Identity <mailboxUser> -PSTFolderPath <pathToSavePST>

This is detailed on the following website, http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/04/13/437745.aspx.

Unfortunately, this cannot be used from an alternate database, such as the RSG.  So the following command is in order:

Restore-Mailbox –RSGMailbox “Test User 1” -RSGDatabase “servername\RSG name\database name” –Identity “Test User 2” –TargetFolder “Test User 1 Recovered data”

This command will restore mail from the RSG database to a folder inside of a mailbox you define under the Identity switch.  Once completed, you can export the resulting set of folders into a PST from Outlook.  The upside to this is that you don’t need a special 32 bit workstation to accomplish it as well.  Please see the following article for more about working with Exchange 2007 RSG, http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Working-Recovery-Storage-Groups-Exchange-2007.html.

Just had to do this again recently and was having issues. Here is the script you need to create.

Make the client automatically start on boot

If you wish to start BB automatically at startup, create a file called bbc and put it in your /etc/init.d dir:

# vi /etc/init.d/bbc

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