Note the following information when you use the command line to browse or restore granular backup images:

• When you perform a snapshot restore of mailboxes or mailbox folders, specify the file names as relative to the Microsoft Information Store or DAG and to the storage group or database.

  Correct:

  \Microsoft Database Availability Groups\My-database\John Q. Employee\
  Top of Information Store\Inbox\Nancy's birthday 
  
  \Microsoft Information Store\My-database\John Q. Employee\Top of Information Store\
  Inbox\Nancy's birthday 
  
  \Microsoft Information Store\My-Store-Group\My-database\John Q. Employee\
  Top of Information Store\Inbox\Nancy's birthday
  

  Incorrect:

  \Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes\John Q. Employee\Top of Information Store\Inbox\
  Nancy's birthday
  

• The "-granular_proxy" option is included with the bpduplicate command and the bplist command. Use the "-granular_proxy" option to specify a proxy host if one of the following situations apply:

  • You do not want to affect the source client

  • The source client is not available

  • You want to use a different proxy host than the one specified in the host properties for the source client

  The following example shows how you can specify a proxy host with the bplist command:

  bplist -t 16 -k exchgranpolicy -R -s 06/09/2008 16:00:00 
  -granular_proxy ProxyServerA "\Microsoft Information Store\StorageGroup1\
  DeptA\EmployeeA\Top of Information Store\Inbox\*" 
  

  More information is available on how to configure the proxy server in the client host properties.

  See Configuring the granular restore proxy host.

• If you specify a proxy host, it must have the same version of Windows as the client from which the backup is made. The proxy host also must have privileges to perform granular operations.

  See About client and proxy server privileges for granular operations.