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Hi John, Jason is correct some backup software will do "brick-level" also known as granular. However this is not the case with all backup software agents. Software that support granular backups my need to be changed from their default before functioning. When performing a restore with granular capabilities you can browse into the edb file and you will see user mailboxes and the folders under them. If you do not see that, you will need to restore the entire edb file. You have a couple options: 1. You can either add space to your Exchange environment and create a recovery database to restore the edb to and move the mail items 2. Restore the edb to a workstation and used a 3rd party tool for granular recovery We have used SysTools Exchange Recovery a number of times on Exchange 2010. http://www.systoolsgroup.com/exchange-recovery.html Hope this helps. Mike Walters, MCSA IT Director ANR Technology Services Michigan State University 446. W. Circle Dr, Rm 221 Justin S. Morrill Hall of Agriculture East Lansing, Michigan 48824 ph. 517.353.4890 x44892 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> -----Original Message----- From: Jason Paluszak [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 9:08 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Exchange 2010 restore mailbox It depends on how it was backed up I believe. If you backed Exchange up with the proper Exchange "Agent" it will let you restore the mailboxes at what is called the "brick-level", so as to effectively avoid having to restore the ENTIRE .edb file. If you did NOT do this however, I am pretty sure you will need to find a way (i.e. the additional space, such as maybe an external drive) and then restore the entire Exchange repository file and then selectively migrate or export the mailbox or mail from the one to the other mail store. Can someone confirm this? It's been a long time since my MS Mail / Exchange admin days. Jason From: John Chang [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 8:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MSUNAG] Exchange 2010 restore mailbox How can I restore just one person's mailbox? My exchange server doesn't have enough space to restore the whole database on the same exchange server and would take a long time so to cut down on the time and size I just need to restore one mailbox. Thank you.