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APCR
Level 2
16 years ago

Backup Exec 10.x directory restore from tape

HI,

I am not at all familiar with Veritas/Symantec BE. We have picked up a nonbooting Dell server that had a degarded RAID. The client worked with Dell support to force a drive online and now the %sysroot%/system32 folder is empty. There are tapes with a month old backup, but no BE boot disk. I want to try and restore the missing directory from the tape(s).

I have a couple questions to determine if this even makes sense to try.

Can I download a bootable ISO to get me into a Veritas recovery environment? Will I need "catalog" files or otherwise not located on the tapes?

These answers should get us started.

Thanks in advance!

Rob

10.x and Earlier
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec

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  • Mandar's avatar
    Mandar
    Level 3
    16 years ago

    the recovery environment can be used only with the Intelligent disaster recovery disks. Otherwise if you have a full backup of data you can reuild the server and then install backup exec run an inventory and catalog and then run a restore for c: system state first restart the system and then restore other data if any, make sure before you run restore the server name is exactly same as it was.,

  • APCR's avatar
    APCR
    Level 2
    16 years ago
    Hi Mandar,

    Thank you for the reply. Looks like we have some work to do.