Restoring Exchange Mailboxes

[richlux]

According to the documentation, to restore Exchange mailboxes from an Information Store backup, the backup-to-disk folder must reside on a local NTFS volume.  Doesn't this defeat the purpose of a backup?  Having the backup on a LOCAL volume is not sufficient.  We have terabytes of external network drives we use do store our backups, but they cannot be used to backup the Information Store and allow restores of individual mailboxes.  I don't want to have to use the legacy option of backing up all the mailboxes individually AND backing up the Information Store too.  Is there any other way to do this?

Thanks,

Richard

[Ben_L_]

Richard,

You can turn off the granular restore technology and just backup the information store to the remote drives.  Also, the local NTFS volumes should be local to the Backup Exec server, not the Exchange server (as long as they are different servers).  The only other way would be to run the backups straight to tape to use the Granular Restore option.

[richlux]

Thanks for the info.  I know I can turn it off, but then I can't restore an individual mailbox or message.  For now I'll just keep backing up the mailboxes the old way.  Also, maybe I misread, but I thought granular restore wasn't supported on tapes.

Thanks,

Richard