Recovery of an MS Exchange storage group or database fails with error "The path cannot be the root directory.”. To work around use, a directory other than root
Symptoms
You attempt to restore an Exchange database and run a restore operation similar to the following one:
You want to restore your database (e.g. MyDB1) in recover storage group;
Select archive from local folder C:\Backups ;
Select for recovery MyDB1 ;
Select Custom -> Recovery database option as recovery destination;
Select Mount recovered databases : Mount ;
Select Logs path: E:\ ;
Leave other settings as default;
When executing this recovery task, you will receive an error similar to the following one:
Message: PowerShell error details: Cannot bind parameter 'LogFolderPath'. Cannot convert value "E:\" to type "Microsoft.Exchange.Data.NonRootLocalLongFullPath". Error: "The path cannot be the root directory."
EventCode: 0x005B012D+0x005B0423+0x005B03FA+0x005B03E9+0x005B03EA
View full error:
Failed to recover storage group or database 'AdminBase'.
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Cause
This is limitation of this operation. The path to choose cannot be the root directory.
Solution
To work around this issue, please choose a directory other than root.
