Arcserve restore - keeps adding an invalid pathname (error 3402)

[klesck]

Wonder id someone can help here.

I`m trying to restore a file to a different location than the original, but when I do this, Arcserve seems to get confused.

It says it can`t create the file, and I can see the problem - I want to resotre it to e:\restore (a temp directory I made) and it creates a path e:\restore\e:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\pub.edb

This is a mixture of the new path, and the original.

Any idea how to get it to stop being so dumb . . .

Thanks.

 

[GSC]

I guess you're trying to restore your exchange database?
Haven't done this but I think it is a tricky one.

Have you tried to restore it on to a different server?
I'm not 100% sure about it but maybe the restore of databases causes this sort of problem, or maybe you're trying to restore it from the agent instead on a file level?
Anyway I guess that the restore to another server should work.

Cheers,
GSC

Common sence is not so common anymore

 

[SimonDavis]

Tricky it is . . .

(note - I was using our old sysadmins machine earlier, hence the sudden name change . . .)

I have got the problem licked now, but I have this feeling I sort of blundered through it and got lucky.

What I had was an older set of databases in the original location, which I didn`t want to overwrite. The solution was instead of fighting with Arcserve, I moved them and restored the up to date ones to their original location.

After some Exchange jiggery pokery, all seems well now. Thanks for the tip though, I`m pertty sure it would have worked.