Did you (re)create the mailboxes before you tried to restore them?

"Jim Davenport" wrote:
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>I try to restore a couple of test mailboxes that I backed up and the restore
>fails with "access denied - unable to restore directory ?testserver2 [testserver2].
> It has this error for each part of the mailbox (example outbox deleted
items
>etc.) It seems like I am missing something. Any help would be appreciated.

No I didn't recreate the mailboxes, I figured that Backup Exec would put everything
back. Was I supposed to? By the way I am using version 8.6.
Thanks

"Ken Putnam" wrote:
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>Did you (re)create the mailboxes before you tried to restore them?
>
>"Jim Davenport" wrote:
>>
>>I try to restore a couple of test mailboxes that I backed up and the restore
>>fails with "access denied - unable to restore directory ?testserver2 [testserver2].
>> It has this error for each part of the mailbox (example outbox deleted
>items
>>etc.) It seems like I am missing something. Any help would be appreciated.
>

Yep. This is from the On-Line Help

When restoring mailbox data, all destination mailboxes must already exist
before the restore begins


"Jim Davenport" wrote:
>
>No I didn't recreate the mailboxes, I figured that Backup Exec would put
everything
>back. Was I supposed to? By the way I am using version 8.6.
>Thanks
>
>"Ken Putnam" wrote:
>>
>>Did you (re)create the mailboxes before you tried to restore them?
>>
>>"Jim Davenport" wrote:
>>>
>>>I try to restore a couple of test mailboxes that I backed up and the restore
>>>fails with "access denied - unable to restore directory ?testserver2
[testserver2].
>>> It has this error for each part of the mailbox (example outbox deleted
>>items
>>>etc.) It seems like I am missing something. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>