>Oliver Moazzezi [MVP] wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> You point to the CMS name, BackupExec 12.5 supports a cool feature called
>> GRT. You should check it out - it allows item level restores into mailboxes
>> without having to do brick level backups or use a Recovery Storage Group.
>
>The GRT functionality in BE 12.0/12.5 (fully patched, mind you) does not
>work reliably at all. Sometimes, it errors straight away; sometimes, it
>recovers well some messages but many others are recovered with blank
>bodies; and sometimes, it errors after several minutes running, once it
>has recovered about half the messages you instructed it to process.
>
>DO NOT RELY ON GRT WORKING AS ADVERTISED. Learn to use the Recovery
>Storage Group (plus ExMerge for Exchange 2003, or Restore-Mailbox in
>Exchange 2007), if you don't want to sweat blood when the time comes.
>
>The fact is that GRT in Backup Exec is a hack. Microsoft has not
>published the internals of the Exchange *.edb/*.stm database files, so
>Backup Exec tries its best to reverse engineer them, but fails most of
>the time. The official way to interact with the Exchange Store for
>recovery purposes is through the Microsoft official Exchange APIs, and
>that means using the Recovery Storage Group.
>
>(Bottom line: if using a Microsoft product, don't try to go against the
>One Microsoft Way, or be ready for the pain.)
>
>Regards.
>
>-Pepe.