Exchange 2007 Enterprise edition: I am trying restore one mailbox from RSG and I would need to know if we can restore the log files for RSG on a mapped drive from another server? If yes what the pre-requisite? We have space problem on the maintenance drive, where we generally restore the RSG from Netbackup client. So i have mapped the n/w drive from another server, pointed RSG log file path to the mapped drive(Z:) and trying to restore the logs to a mapped drive. But the restoration is getting failed and at the end Netbackup is showing below errors 09:08:38 6/17/2011: Restore Started 09:08:44 (38631.xxx) Restore job id 38631 will require 1 image. 09:08:44 (38631.xxx) Media id W451L4 is needed for the restore. 09:08:49 (38631.001) Restoring from copy 1 of image created 4/1/2011 10:14:02 PM 09:08:50 (38631.001) INF - If Media id W451L4 is not in a robotic library administrative interaction may be required to satisfy this mount request. 09:08:52 (38631.001) INF - Waiting for mount of media id W451L4 on server bkup02.a.com for reading. 09:08:57 (38631.001) INF - TAR STARTED 09:10:07 (38631.001) INF - Waiting for positioning of media id W451L4 on server bkup02.a.com for reading. 09:12:21 (38631.001) INF - Beginning restore from server bkup02.a.com to client ex05. 09:12:22 (38631.001) TAR - Microsoft Information Store:\ 09:12:23 (38631.001) ERR - unable to create object for restore: Microsoft Information Store:\ (BEDS 0xE00084AF: The directory or file was not found, or could not be accessed. ) 09:12:23 (38631.001) TAR - Microsoft Information Store:\EX01-SG4\ 09:12:23 (38631.001) MNR - The file was renamed to the following: 09:12:23 (38631.001) UTF - Microsoft Information Store:\RSG\ 09:12:23 (38631.001) ERR - unable to create object for restore: Microsoft Information Store:\RSG\ (BEDS 0xE00084AF: The directory or file was not found, or could not be accessed. ) 09:12:23 (38631.001) TAR - Microsoft Information Store:\EX01-SG4\EX01-SG4-DB1 09:12:23 (38631.001) MNR - The file was renamed to the following: 09:12:23 (38631.001) UTF - Microsoft Information Store:\RSG\EX01-SG4-DB1 09:12:23 (38631.001) ERR - unable to create object for restore: Microsoft Information Store:\RSG\EX01-SG4-DB1 (BEDS 0xE00084AF: The directory or file was not found, or could not be accessed. ) 11:34:01 (38631.001) TAR - Microsoft Information Store:\EX01-SG4\Log files_1301710442 11:34:01 (38631.001) MNR - The file was renamed to the following: 11:34:01 (38631.001) UTF - Microsoft Information Store:\RSG\Log files_1301710442 11:34:06 (38631.001) ERR - unable to create object for restore: Microsoft Information Store:\RSG\Log files_1301710442 (BEDS 0xE00084AF: The directory or file was not found, or could not be accessed. ) 11:34:37 (38631.001) INF - TAR EXITING WITH STATUS = 5 11:34:37 (38631.001) INF - TAR RESTORED 0 OF 4 FILES SUCCESSFULLY 11:34:37 (38631.001) INF - TAR KEPT 0 EXISTING FILES 11:34:37 (38631.001) INF - TAR PARTIALLY RESTORED 0 FILES 11:34:40 (38631.001) Status of restore from copy 1 of image created 4/1/2011 10:14:02 PM = tar did not find all the files to be restored 11:34:43 INF - Server status = 5 11:34:45 (38631.xxx) INF - Status = the restore failed to recover the requested files. Let me know if you need any information. Kindly help me to troubleshoot the problem! Thanks Netbackup progress window as below,

Exchange 2007 has a database portability feature where you can basically restore data as long as you're in the same Microsoft environment.

If this is the case then i would need to troubleshoot this issue further why restoration is getting failed at the end of the Netbackup window. Netbackup is writing the data till end of the log file size and getting failed at the end when try to paste it to the mapped drive. Its windows server 2008 environment so please let me the access/permission requirement on each server also if any special guidelines needs be followed while restoring to a mapped drive from Netbackup perspective?

So i have mapped the n/w drive from another server, pointed RSG log file path to the mapped drive(Z:) and trying to restore the logs to a mapped drive. Hi Abhi28, Do you mean you created the RSG on a mapped drive? If yes, you cannot have an Exchange 2007 database on a mapped drive. Frank Wang TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.