I too have need of this -- it seems that "re-creating the mailboxes" is indeed a step that is suggested.
IN BE 8.6, with Exchange 5.5, I have brick level mailbox backups for three Mailboxes that have since been deleted -- the mailboxes do not exist on the Exchange Server any longer.
I need to restore the contents of these three mailboxes in order to make pst files from them.
It does not matter if I redirect the Restore to another mailbox even -- which again, is one of those things that "looks like it will work" from the Veritas User 8.6 Manual -- which granted is vague
Yes you can do it -- No, mailbox restores MUST go into existing mailboxes of the same name as the mailbox the backup was done from...
what is the Truth?
Help.
I also have Information Store and Dir Store backups
AS WELL AS
"brick level mailbox backups"
My goal is to get the mailbox data from three no-longer-existing on the Exchange Server mailboxes restored
to ANY mailbox -- same name recreated or not -- long enough to export a pst file for each one of the 3 to have on hand if needed.