is there a good way to dump all mailboxes?

[pesos]

We want to do an offsite encrypted backup, so I'd like to dump all mailboxes from o365 backup.

Oddly the gui doesn't appear to allow for this. So I found another thread that provided this pshell:

$mailboxes = Get-VEXMailbox -Database $database
foreach ($user in $mailboxes)
{
$mailbox = Get-VEXMailbox -Database $database -name $user
Export-VEXItem -Mailbox $mailbox -To "Z:\pst\ala\$($user.Email).pst"
}


So we ran this and it hit an error about 50 mailboxes into 500ish (Connection to server was unexpectedly closed. See log file for details). So now we either have to run it again and start from scratch, or find a way to try and exempt the ones that completed.

Is there a better way to handle this? Thanks!

[nielsengelen]

I believe you can contact support for assistance here to increase the time-out. For now, PowerShell is the only feasable workaround.

[pesos]

There is an actual timeout? Ugh.

[nielsengelen]

Well, I said I believe . It is a bit hard to say since I don’t know which error it is exactly and therefor I suggested to contact support. If you do, please let us know the support ID.

[pesos]

Thank you Neilsen. So as far as the actual question (design/approach to best do an mass export) do you have any thoughts?

[pesos]

Get-VBOMailboxProtectionReport : Cannot bind parameter 'Organization'. Cannot convert the
"tenant.onmicrosoft.com" value of type "System.String" to type
"Veeam.Archiver.PowerShell.Model.VBOOrganization".

I've tried this report with both the tenant name as shown above as well as the guid (both exactly as reported by get-vboorganization) but I get the error above in both cases.

[Mike Resseler]

Pesos,

You need to grab the object itself and use it as a paramter

So something like: $organization = get-vboorganization...

Get-VBOMailboxProtectionReport ... -organization $organization

[pesos]

perfect, thanks Mike! with this dump we can at least do some cleanup and then use the csv to process the restores in smaller batches.

[pesos]

This is generally going fine (although tedious) - but it seems to be erroring when encountering archives - is there a way to get those to properly export?

Export-VEXItem : Cannot convert 'John Doe In-Place Archive - John Doe' to the type
'Veeam.Exchange.PowerShell.Model.Items.VEXMailbox' required by parameter 'Mailbox'. Specified
method is not supported.

[pesos]

Any thoughts on the archive thing?

Also, are there improvements to the restore process coming for large batches? It literally took a month and a half of processing in batches to get 1100 mailboxes dumped to pst.

Thanks!