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Steve_4
Level 4
9 years ago

B2D2T Queries

Hi All, I am running the latest update of Backup Exec 2014 on a windows 2012 R2 Server. I have recently begun looking into configuring B2D2T Backups and have the following questions in regards ...
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  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    9 years ago

    1) Since you are restoring from an Exchange backup, BE will stage the tape backup set to disk before it will do the actual restore.  You need to ensure that you have sufficient disk space for this staging or duplicate the tape backup set to disk and doing the restore from the disk backup set.

    2) It is a bit more complicated because you are doing an Exchange differential backup.  This requires the full backup set and the Exchange database.

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Steve_4
Level 4
9 years ago

Thanks for your prompt reply pkh,

So two more quick questions then:

1. So in order to restore the duplicated files on the tape, they would have to be restored to the disk and then transferred to the server? Or does BE handle everything and restore directly from the tape?

2. So how does the differential know what has changed since the last time a full back up was run? I say this because a differential failed at the verify stage last night saying that it could not find the previous backup tape.

Thanks,
Steven