Dave,

Usually this means that the proper file shares (like C$ or D$)
are not accessible by the user doing the restore or the
file shares do not exist at all.

For example, if your Exchange Server is on the D: drive,
then the D$ file share must exist and the user doing the
restore must have permission to this share.

It will try to open "\\machinename\D$\exchsrvr\dsadata\dir.edb".
If it cannot open this file, you will get the message above.

I have seen some security/virus programs remove these shares
leading to this problem.

Thanks,

Del

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Del Hoobler
Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com


> I am trying to restore Exchange to a recovery server.  When I start the
> restore of the directory I get the following message in the status field:
>
> Failure to open file during restore operation
>
> It is unclear what it was unable to open, and there are no other helpful
> error messages anywhere that I can find.
>
> The version of exchange is 5.5; the version of the connect agent is 1.1b;
> the adsm server is at v3.1.2.1
>
> tia
>
> dave