mnjoe
15 years agoLevel 3
automatic restore after a backup job is finished.
Here is what happened. A user deleted and entire folder and came to me to restore it. No problem right!!! went to the previous nights backup and and started the restore job and received an error that the tape drive was not responding. Got on the phone with Dell for 6 hours and tested several things. The last thing tested was disconnecting the tape drive from the server and doing a random tape move. That failed!! Replaced the tape drive. Took them from thursday to Monday mornig to get the drive in. Restarted the restore job from scratch. Failed again. Replaced the cable, terminator on back of tape drive. I then figured try a different tape. Tried the tape from tuesday nights backup instead of wednesday backup. It worked. Now I figure the brand new tape less than 2 months which is used every other week was bad also. I do run the verify at the end of the backup up jobs and everything was showing succesful (green) for the backup jobs. I want to create a bogus folder with just a few files in it and do a small restore job at the end of the backup job just to verify everything is OK. Is there a way to do this automatically using the previous nights tape just as a test.
Thanks
Joel