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biscut
Level 3
12 years ago

Automated Restore Advice needed

I have a restore job scheduled to run every night that will restore from a specific backup set created at a specific date and time i.e. filebackup.bkf created on 14/11/2012 at 19:00 - filebackup. ...
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  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    12 years ago

    There is no ability to scheduled restore in the BE console.

     

    You might be able to do it with scripting and the BEMCMD command line tool, but this sort of scripting is beyond what the Tech Support Team offer as a service (althogh other forum posters may be able to assist)

     

    As an aside, you should not flat file backup bkf files anyway, (assuming it is created by Backup Exec) you should be running duplicate jobs.

biscut's avatar
biscut
Level 3
12 years ago

ahh ok, yes it is for something that I have selected, as I say, the file contents change, not the name so was hoping there was some way "round" it. When a restore is scheduled (or processed) is it just looking for the media ID to run the restore that you know of or other info too?

Wondered if there was some way of changing the media ID on the new file to mimic the original if you know what I mean.

As for their being a good reason why not to do automated restores then yes, I can understand very well why there might be some hesitation as it could result in over writing files WAY too easily. However, I would have thought that the option should be there and only people that know what they are doing have access to the function. Am SOOOOO close to finishing the project, this is the very last stumbling block LOL

Thank you very much for your help guys, I really appreciate it.

Regards

David Thomas