*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?

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