Unable to restore Exchange mailboxes with old DAG name

[fishizza1]

I am attempting to restore a few mailboxes for Exchange 2010 from Backup Exec 2010.  The exchange backup is from a year ago and at that time the DAG was named DAG01.company.local.  For various reasons we have renamed our production DAG to DAG03.company.local.

When i try to run the restore job, under resource credentials i see the path to DAG01.company.local when testing the credentials.  The test fails saying a "communications failure has occured"  I am guessing this is because DAG01 no longer exists in our infrastructure.

My question then is how can I restore an exchange backup where the DAG name is no longer the same as the production one?

[CraigV]

...is this just doing a normal restore, or have you tried a redirected restore?

Thanks!

[fishizza1]

I have tried a redirecting restore to a recoveryDB i created

[Donald_Eady]

Fishizza, 

       You said that youre trying to restore a few mailboxes.... If so this may be your issue... When restoring to a Recovery DB you need to restore the database, or attempt the redirected restore and target the new DAG name... I dont believe that you are able to just restore selected mailboxes.

[fishizza1]

Is it that you can't restore individual mailboxes to a recovery DB?  We enable GRT on exchange backups for the purpose of just restoring what we need.  I was hoping to avoid restoring the whole DB due to its size

[Donald_Eady · Accepted solution]

That is correct... When restoring to a RDB you are unable to Granularly restore. Its all or nothing. You can however restore just the selected mailboxes and redirect them to the New DAG name

[fishizza1]

OK, thanks.  I'll give that a try.  I like the idea of restoring to a different DB just to avoid doing anything on production but mounting the entire DB for just a couple mailboxes doesn't make a lot of sense.