Maybe you could install Virtual PC on the box with the tape drive and do the restore into a virtual environment??
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:04 PM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject: [ActiveDir] OT:problem Say your company had a lawsuit and you needed to restore a few months of exchang2k email. and say you only backed up the entire info store. no brick-level backups. and say your deleted item rentenion was only 30 days. and then say, you only have one tape drive which is being used to backup your network. thus your new AD forest recovery server had no tape drive to recover your veritas backupexec backed up exchange server. what would you do? you don't have time to order another tape drive. the tape drive of your current backup server has the wrong scsi cable for your recovery server. could you install a new exchange server in your domain and redirect the restore to that? without screwing up your forest/org? does backup exec have an option to restore an info store from tape to a file? can ntbackupp read a veritas tape? what would you do? this is a real issue for me now. i have a tape backup and a recovery server in a recovery forest with no tape drive. thanks List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ ---- The information contained in this e-mail transmittal, including any attached document(s) is confidential. The information is intended only for the use of the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying, or distribution of the contents hereof is strictly prohibited. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
