Greetings.
I am a network administrator for a small manufacturing company. Our company is currently being proactive in response to possible legal inquiry (note: "inquiry".... not "investigation"). Part of our efforts include setting aside the full backup jobs that were conducted just prior to a specific incident by which we expect to be questioned.
We are currently using BUE 2010 v13.0 rev 5204
We have these full backups on LTO tape.
We do not want to restore them back to the live Exchange Server... there is no need for this.
What we're hoping to do is restore the full backup on the Exchange IS to an arbitrary physical network share; where the Exchange EDB can then be browsed and searched by third party tools without disturbing our live Exchange IS data.
Using the Backup Exec restore function, we know that FILE backups can be redirected out to an arbitrary network share (so that they do not disturb the existing share from which they originally came). Exchange backups seem to be a different matter altogether. The "Microsoft Exchange Redirection" menu does not seem to include a function where the Exchange IS data clearly restores out to a network share. Rather, if I click on "Redirect Exchange Sets", I can only restore to a server (assuming this means an existing Exchange server), or a DAG. We do not want to restore to either resource.
File Redirection:
Exchange Redirection:
Has anyone ever dealt with something like this?
What might I be able to try?
Does "File Redirection" override "Exchange Redirection"?
I don't want to assume that I can redirect away from our live Exchange IS, when nothing clearly indicates that I can do this.
Any advice would be most helpful.
Thank you.