Configuring
EXMERGE
To perform Brick-Level
backups of one or more mailboxes found
on one Exchange server follow these
steps:
- Navigate to the
%Program Files%\Exchsrvr\bin folder
of your Exchange server and
double-click EXMERGE.EXE.
- On the Welcome
page click Next.
- On the “Procedure
Selection” dialogue box, select
“Export or Import (Two Step
Procedure)”.
- On the “Two Step
Procedure” dialogue box, select
“Step 1: Extract data from and
Exchange Server Mailbox”.
- In the
“Source Server” dialogue box specify
the name of your Exchange server. If
you have a multiple domain
environment you'll need to specify
the name and LDAP port number of
your Domain Controller. Click Next.
- In the “Database
Selection” dialogue box select the
mailbox store you want to perform
the action upon.
Note: In a
scenario where you only have one
mailbox store you will not be
presented with this page.
Click Next.
- In the “Mailbox
Selection” dialogue box select
individual mailboxes or press the
“Select All” button to select all
mailboxes found in that store. In
this example I will only select one
mailbox. Note that you can also see
the mailbox size next to the mailbox
name.
Click Next.
- On the
“Locale Selection” dialogue box
select the Locale that you would
like to use to search the mailboxes.
Hebrew users
note: To successfully utilize
the power of EXMERGE when using
Hebrew enabled servers with
Hebrew-titled items and mailbox
names you MUST follow the next tip:
EXMERGE and Hebrew Fonts. Failing to
do so might cause great damage to
your exported mailboxes and to the
names and titles of items within
those mailboxes. Failing to do so
will not harm the items that are in
the original mailboxes, however
items that were exported to the .PST
files might turn out to be
illegible.
Click Next.
- Specify
the path to the folder where you
want to place the .PST files. This
folder should reside on a different
HD that the one where your mailbox
stores are located, but this is only
a recommendation for performance
benefits, not a must. Also, make
sure you have enough free space on
that partition.
Click Next.
- On the “Save
Settings” dialogue box you can now
save the settings you've configured
so far, or you can just click Next.
You can also chance the name and
location of the files used by
EXMERGE by clicking on the “File
Names” button.
Note:
Notice where you save these files.
You can later modify the settings of
the EXMERGE operation by simply
altering some parts of these files.
For example, if
you look at the contents of the
MAILBOXES.TXT file, you'll see that
you can easily add or remove
mailboxes by adding or deleting rows
in that file.
Take some time to
explore these files, it's well worth
spending a few minutes on them.
- After pressing
Next the process will begin. This
could take a considerable about of
time depending on how many mailboxes
you've selected and the size of the
mailboxes.
Notice an example
of a successful process:
If you get a
window that states that there were
one or more failures, such as this
one:
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