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by campbellwj

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I would like to speak with someone who has a lot of experience with Exchange 5.5 sp4. I am having some difficulty with doing restores. For some reason after I do a restore of the last full backup and then the restore of incremental backups, I am getting duplicate messages, calendar, contacts, and email.

If you can help, please email me at williamc@ectel.com.

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by mingerto

We recently ran into the same situation. What we discovered is that after restoring from the last full backup, each subsequent restore duplicated all of the data in the mailboxes, calendars, etc. It seems that in some cases, just logging into Exchange and viewing a calendar or contact triggers all calendar items and contacts to be backed up. Our workaround was to perform the full restore and each incremental on everything EXCEPT the user mailboxes. Once this was done, we restored from the last incremental. This caught virtually all of the users who had been logged in that day. After that, we waited for the users who were not in, to request that their mailbox be restored.

It is not a CLEAN solution, but it worked OK in our case. We have approximately 170 users and this caught about 80% of them.

Good Luck!

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