Exchange server down; restore contacts\calendar from iphone

Hello community,
i ran into a problem when helping a friend out trying to migrate his contacts\calendar entries from iphone3 to his new iphone5. We first used iTunes to back up his old iphone's data and then restored this data to the new iphone. However, his calendar entries were completely missing as were most of his contacts (not all of them). I then synced the calendar\contacts to Outlook, but got the same result: the calendar was totally empty, and most of his contacts too (however, the synchronisation process mentioned something about Exchange).
My friend is not very savyy when it comes to technical stuff and had his iPhone set up by a collegue a couple of years ago and didn't know anything about its configuration.
As i figured out the phone was indeed configured to save its calendar\contacts on an Exchange server hosted by an external company. I confirmed that when creating a new calendar entry, the phone was set to save the entry in a calendar hosted on the Exchange server. (The same thing with new contacts)
However, the problem is the Exchange server is down for a couple of years now as the external company no longer exists. Think my friend must have "clicked away" a notification about this once as i used the old phone for several hours figuring out the settings and NEVER got any notification about the phone not being able to access the Exchange server.
I searched the internet how to migrate Exchange calendar\entrys to a new phone, but all tutorials i found are based on scenarios where the Exchange server is still accessible. Does anybody know any way or 3rd party tool (the ones i tried only gave me the same result as the iTunes\Outlook approach) to retrieve the entries from the iPhone ?? Right know, i told my friend that his calendar is probably gone for good, and the he can add any missing contacts by sending the contact via Email from his old phone and then import the vcf file on his new phone (but as he has several hundred entries, this would be a very cumbersome approach).
Regards

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