StorageCraft has launched a new solution for backing up, restoring, searching or migrating Exchange database (EDB) files.

ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange complements ShadowProtect Server and ShadowProtect Small Business Server, which provide point-in-time backup images of an Exchange server. With those existing images, IT administrators can simply use ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange to access the Exchange EDB backup file contained in the backup image, navigate to the desired email files – whether it’s entire mailboxes, individual email messages, or email attachments – then drag and drop the needed files to a production Exchange server or save them to a PST file.

Greg Wyman, Vice President Asia Pacific for StorageCraft, said: “Microsoft Exchange is one of the most popular email servers for companies of all sizes but it’s also complex, which sometimes makes it difficult to recover and restore individual mailboxes and email messages. ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange takes the guesswork out of that process, restoring critical data within minutes instead of hours or days.”

Features of the release include:

• Rapid restore of deleted email: Find and restore a single email in minutes, eliminating the need for a comprehensive restore of an entire server to recover a few missing files.
• Rapid recovery of specific mailboxes: Expedite the recovery of a single mailbox or specific groups of mailboxes without requiring an entire database recovery, saving time and money.
• Swift search of email archives: Search email messages and attachment file name by key word, subject, sender, recipient, or send date. An optional add-on allows even more in-depth search with the ability to scan attachment contents.
• Easy migration to a new Exchange server: Drag-and-drop user mailboxes to the new Exchange server once it’s online, minimising migration time.

The new version of ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange, which has an available trial version, also supports Exchange 2010.