I'm trying to test a redirected restore to a RSG on another computer that has exchange installed. This is really just for my own education because I should know how to do this and am practising.

I believe I have set everything up right but I seem to get various errors that make it fail.

I have been following this process       http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/264815.htm

I have Veritas 9.1 with the exchange component.

I have created a RSG on the "New" Exchange server.  In the first storage group. (The old server is still running a mounted Exchange db in the first storage group. ) The name of the the original computer is exchange and the storage group is called exchange. The new comptuer is called exchange1.

I have redirected the mailboxes to the new Exchange server to a RSG of the same name as the original.

The errors I get are:

Job completion Status

Job ended: November 24, 2009 at 11:07:53 AM
Completed status: Failed
Final error: 0xa000feab - Corrupt data encountered - See job log for details.

Final error category: Resource Errors

AND

Errors
Error: The database Mailbox Store (EXCHANGE) must be created prior to restore. An error occurred restoring the database. Please use the Event Viewer to examine the event log or view the database log file for details. Error writing file data.

Restore - \\EXCHANGE1\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group

As far as corrupt data is concerned I have verified it using the Veritas and it is 100% good.

I have read the response to the error in

 http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/269590.htm

Which basically says it’s caused by one of two things.

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1. When attempting to restore a Mailbox Store backup to a Recovery Storage Group where the Recovery Storage Group has been created but the Mailbox Store has not been added to it

OR

2. When attempting to restore an Information Store (Mailbox Store) to a production database when the Mailbox Store is currently in a mounted state

If the goal of the restore operation is to recover the mailbox data to the Recovery Storage Group for the purpose of retrieving one or more mailboxes or mailbox items without disturbing the production mail database, then the Recovery Storage Group must be present and configured correctly. In this case the production Mailbox Store should remain mounted.
 

To successfully recover the Mailbox Store to the Recovery Storage Group on the Exchange Server, make certain that the Recovery Storage Group has been created and that the Mailbox Store has been added to it (see the Related Documents section of this TechNote for instructions on how to use the Recovery Storage Group to restore Exchange 2003 data).

If the goal of the restore operation is to restore the data back to the production database for the purpose of reverting the database to a point in time, or to recover the entire database from an inconsistent state, make certain that the Exchange Server does not have a Recovery Storage Group present and that the production database to be restored has been dismounted.
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In my case its point #1 that fits my situation, HOWEVER I DO have a RSG and it is NOT mounted.

So I’m not sure where the problem is?

Can anyone provide any insight.