Hya folks!
Setup:
BackupExec 2012 running on SBS 2011.
Storage device is a 1GB drive plugged into a Stardom with a secondary disk that we manually swap and take offsite every week (actually, a collection of four such drives that we swap in series). This gives us backups going back four weeks.
We want to restore a mailbox from three weeks ago. I've pulled the oldest RAID 1 disk out of rotation, mounted it in a usb enclosure, and shared it over the network.
I am, however, not very familiar with how Backup Exec's manages storage devices and I am having trouble creating a Restore job from this network disk.
Can someone please walk me through the process to create a Restore job from a network share for an old backup set?
Part of the problem may be that the disk has the same identity as the active storage drive. I tried adding the network share in storage via the menu:
Storage | Configure Storage | Disk-Based Storage | Disk Storage | ...
Error message: "The disk storage device [PrimaryStorageDiskName] was found at the specified path. It is already a device on [ServerName] and cannot be added as a shared device."
I'm sure it's a relatively trivial process, and my inexperience is the only major barrier.
Much thanks!