Hi,

I am a little confused by the above.  So the data was archived to EV under old servers.  These were removed and now you want to restore to an alternate location, correct?

Have you tried

I cannot be 100% certain without testing this, but may work and not need you to re-add the old file server.

The customer was migrating four fileservers into one new cluster. Before the migratation they moved all homefolders of people that left the company (or so they believed) to a new folder called "leftusers" under D: on the fileservers.
The "leftusers" folder was then addad as a archivepoint in EV and archived.

After some months one user came back from maternity leave and found that her homefolder was gone.
The server that held her homefolder was shutdown and removed and also removed from EV.

Since the homefolders was pretty big using search or archive explorer to collect all files is no good idea so customer was looking into using FSAUtility.

I heard that FSAUtility is talking to the placeholder service on servers and if that's the thruth then I will need to have "old servers" left in EV and on the network to be able to use FSAUtility since the -s option points to UNC path of the original server.

Can I set up a new server (in VMware) and name it to the same name as the removed server, set up a D: and add "leftusers" folder and install placeholder and add the server as a target in EV and create a archivepoint to "leftusers".

I think that the customer has tried using: "Fsautility –t –s \\OldServer105\h$ -d \\NewServer\NewShare" before they asked me but I will check in on that.

//Mats

Hi Mats,

To the best of my knowledge on FSAUtility the -s [UNC location] is used only to reference the source data in the Vault, not as a restore path and as such the -t  -s [source UNC location] -d [destination UNC location] should work

Chris