It is apparent to me and many others that the SMTP system in Backup Exec has been broken almost as long as I have been using it, sometime around 2005. That was probably before they were even taken over by Symantec, but the problem was able to be fixed ...
I'm sure this is not the first time this request has been made internally or externally of Symantec...
The BESR/SSR product material/marketing makes the product look like a complete whole system image/granular backup to disk/recovery solution ...
Restore from a non primary copy (closest copy); Situations can arise where the copy 1 is not the desirable copy the restore should be done from. At this time to restore from non copy 1 that copy has to be expired.
NO NEED to expire copy 1 It is ...