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Dearl1988
Level 2
8 years ago

Accidental deleted job

I have accidentally deleted 2 of the 3 jobs I had on the server.

What can I do to restore these deleted jobs?

  • As long as the BEDB.bak still exists from before the date you deleted the jobs then you *could recover the BEDB using BEUTILITY

    *However if any jobs have run since the time of your BEDB.bak (from before the deletion) then you would be better off recreating your deleted jobs and not recovering the BEDB as job histories, media inventory and backup set retention is also within the BEDB so it would be a bad idea to take the BEDB back in time if newer jobs have run.

    BTW deleting the backup jobs by accident should not affect your ability to restore the data that they backed up before the deletion.

    • Dearl1988's avatar
      Dearl1988
      Level 2

      Thanks for the reply.... But how do I accomplish this? I have no means to restore my deleted jobs, I don't know how to create a new job which I have no idea what this job was supposed to be backing up.

      • Colin_Weaver's avatar
        Colin_Weaver
        Moderator

        Well if you did not go looking for your BEDB.BAK as soon as I told you it was important it might be too late as it gets overwritten over 24 hours

        So assuming it is now too late - you need to go looking for the *.XML files in the DATA folder - these are the job logs - if you manually edit them (on at a time) in something like notepad - you should be able to find examples for both deleted jobs that willl tell you something about what you were backing up, what the repeat frequency was and whether you were running differentials/incrementals etc You may have to copy the retention settings from the job that you didn't delete (the job frequencies for that one remaining job might also be useful)

        You should probably then spend some time with our admin guide (or possibly things like youtube videos on using Backup Exec) to educate yourself on how to create jobs - it would take too long to write an entry in this post covering everything you need to consider when creating a job.

        If your BEDB.BAK is still from before your deletion then you run BEUTILITY.EXE and use the recover database option to recover from the backup copy - BUT this will massively affect any backup history, data retention and media inventory against any backups run since the date the BEDB.BAK was created so is really not recommended if further joibs have run.