Protecting Hosted Exchange data

What items can be backed up?

You can back up user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, and group mailboxes. Optionally, you can choose to back up the archive mailboxes (In-Place Archive) of the selected mailboxes.

What items can be recovered?

The following items can be recovered from a mailbox backup:

• Mailboxes
• Email folders
• Email messages
• Calendar events
• Tasks
• Contacts
• Journal entries
• Notes

You can use search to locate the items.

When recovering mailboxes, mailbox items, public folders, and public folder items, you can select whether to overwrite the items in the target location.

When a mailbox is recovered to an existing mailbox, the existing items with matching IDs are overwritten.

Recovery of mailbox items does not overwrite anything. Instead, the full path to a mailbox item is recreated in the target folder.