*grumble* that really sucks.
> On Jul 16, 2014, at 15:06, "Michael B. Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > > To the best of my knowledge, DPM restores the entire DB and then picks out > the appropriate piece you request for the restore. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 5:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] DPM & Exchange > > I've not used DPM a lot (2012 installed here) but I have done brick-level > restores with it. > > For some reason in this environment when I select a single mailbox it acts > like it's going to restore just the one mailbox but in fact restores the > whole database that holds the mailbox. To be clear: > > In DPM console go to Recovery: Search (open the leaf) Exchange Mailboxes. Use > the dialogs at the top to find the one I want, then rclick, select "Recover" > and follow the wizard. > Recovery type: Recover mailbox to an Exchange server database > Exchange server name is correct (selected from the Browse) as is the DB (a > RDB created with PS). > > The mailbox I'm using is my own and on that date was about 12M. The recovery > fails with "inadequate disk space" on a 400G drive. Uh.... what? I didn't set > up the backup jobs; is there something that has to be configured there?

