BE2012 - Exchange granular restore

Hi,

When you do a GRT backup to tape, you're able to restore a single item from that tape...BUT, it stages the entire Information Store to disk first (essentially copies it to disk). The default is C:\Temp. If you don't have enough free disk space on your C:\ drive, then you need to move this temp location to a drive with enough disk space free as your Information Store is big. For example, if your Information Store is 50GB in size, make sure the drive has a minimum of 50GB free.

If you backup to disk first before duplicating to tape, there is no need to stage to disk as it is there already. I've seen a document somewhere where Symantec recommend B2D first, and then duplicate to tape for longer-term retention.

Hope this helps?

THanks!