Restoring an Exchange Mailbox that was backed up from an old server.

[William_Huber]

I am running a Windows 2000 server (SP4) with Veritas Backup Exec 10.0 rev 5520.

We have a backup tape from 1/3/2005 that we have cataloged and inventoried. We are attempting to restore an exchange users mailbox from this tape. The only problem is the mail server has changed since the backup was created, and the old server has been decommissioned. The old servers name was GHCCMAIL and our new servers name is GHCCSRVR.

When we setup the restore job we make the selections we want, set the exchange redirection to restore it to the new exchange server (GHCCSRVR) and restore it to the correct mailbox. The users account is enabled and an account with sufficient privliges is being used. When attempting to run the job we get an �Unable to create selection list� error.

Is there any way to restore an exchange mailbox that was backed up on an old mail server to a new exchange server?

Thanks,

[tejashree_Bhate]

Hello,

Check if the following technotes are useful.

(title) The error "Unable to create selection list" occurs when trying to create a restore job.

http://support.veritas.com/docs/279681

(title) "Unable to create selection list" is received when performing a restore of files with a specific extension after performing an upgrade to Backup Exec 10.x.

http://support.veritas.com/docs/281822

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