Can the staging area be an external hard drive?

[rld9352]

I'm trying to restore a message from exchange that is backed up to tape.

The information store is 62GB and I don't have that much free space on the hard drive.

So Can I use a external usb drive for the staging area? I don't see why not it's a local disk and is formatted as NTFS but it's not working.

[mwilmoth]

Were you able to get this resolved? I am having the same problem and was thinking about trying the USB key as well. Thanks for the assistance

[Ken_Putnam]

I've never tried it, but the way the manual read, It is an NTFS volume conneced directluy to the meida server], right  Evern with USB 2.0, you may not be real plaesed with the throughput, it it out to work