We are currently running Exchange 2010 on Server 2008 servers which we back up with Symantec Backup Exec. Over the last few years, we've upgraded Exchange several times (from 5.5 to 2010) and have always used Backup Exec as the backup solution. At the end of every year, we run a full backup that we then store indefintely. Recently, after upgrading from Exchange 2007 to 2010 and then subsequently upgrading Backup Exec from 12.5 to 2010 R2, we received a request from a user to recover several emails that had been backed up under the older versions of Exchange and Backup Exec. We then discovered that Backup Exec (apparently) is unable to do granular restores from legacy versions. We've now decided that a good way to move forward would be to find software that could extract/convert data directly from either the BKF file that Backup Exec generates or from an EDB database file backup. Using this method, we could simlply run an end-of-year backup that only backs up the database files (EDB) and, if the need arises, use the software to extract messages from that to either a PST (which could then be re-imported to the users mailbox) or to message files that could be placed into the users mailbox. Does anyone have any recommendations for this type of software? Have done numerous searches but some of the results look a bit dodgy. Any suggestions gladly appreciated. Thanks,
Adam