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Aladyreg's avatar
Aladyreg
Level 3
9 years ago

Backup Exec 2014 - Restore data from tape

I am trying to find a way, how to extract data from restored Shadow Copy Components tape in Backup Exec 2014.

I have daily about 10 tasks appliance_dedupe and one task storages it all to tape every day. I have setup one month task to create month tapes in case of any. I am trying to restore all data from tape to disk. I have read that I have to restore Shadow Copy Components to disk at first. I done, it is on the disk, but I want to ,,restore,, from it data - now there are a lot of files with .bin suffixes.

Data on disk are only 1 month so if I need restore any file from year back, I got only shadow copy components.

I have fetched whole manual and a lot of forums, but did not found any help.

Thank you for your help, Robert

2014
Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Backup Exec (media server only)
Backup Exec Appliances
Deduplication Option
Managing Backup Devices
Not Applicable
Recovering
  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    9 years ago

    A duplicate job is a stage you add to a standard job  definition so that it can be regularly scheduled (or run directly after the initial job.) Edit your backup job definition to understand where to add a stage.

    ALso I think if you open up your storage details and look at the backup sets you might be able to select a backup set and duplicate it from there as well (as a one off duplicate)

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  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    Moderator
    9 years ago
    Give some examples of the files that you want to restore
  • Aladyreg's avatar
    Aladyreg
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    There are many examples - question was in general. In Shadow Backup Copy there are backuped about 10 servers and the size is 1,32TB. If you want an example, I want to restore file named Mapping, which was in server ABCD and stored 1 year back. I have restored Shadow Backup Copy to local disk from tape and I want to extract that file. How to do it?

  • VJware's avatar
    VJware
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    Sounds like you backed up the DeDupe Storage via the Shadow Copy Components to tape.

    If that's the case, when you run the restore, you have to target the restore to the DeDupe Storage. It cannot be restored to a regular disk storage.

  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    Moderator
    9 years ago
    How do you know that this file is in the shadow copy? Did you restore the shadow copy from the right volume? Also, some files in the shadow copy is kept in some kind of "containers". This is the Microsoft way to storing the file in the shadow copy
  • Aladyreg's avatar
    Aladyreg
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Yes it sounds like my problem. I backed up DeDupe Storage via Shadow Copy Components to tape.

    So I should restore it directly to DeDupe Storage where are daily backups?

  • VJware's avatar
    VJware
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    Yes, it has to be restored directly to a DeDupe folder. The only way you can restore to another DeDupe folder is if you can setup another BE server.

  • alsan's avatar
    alsan
    Level 2
    9 years ago

    i have an issue symantec Backup exec server it just keep failing

    this is the error below from the server

    Job started     : Thursday, October 08, 2015 9:49:38 AM
Job ended       : Thursday, October 08, 2015 9:49:43 AM
Final error: 0xe0008113 - Physical Volume Library Robot not found.

Final error category: Backup Device Errors
Completed status: Failed

    kindly help, and all the backup setting it not working right, some times it backup and some times it failed and it eject tape on some server backup

  • Aladyreg's avatar
    Aladyreg
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Be honest, I am afraid to restore it directly to DeDupe folder.

    We are able to setup to BE server, where is the DeDupe folder... Is not possible to set 2 dedupe files and switch between them? For example one primary for daily backups and secondary for restores? 

  • VJware's avatar
    VJware
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    One can have only 1 DeDupe folder per BE media server hence, the suggestion to setup another BE server.

    You'll have to install the DeDupe Option in trial and then create a new DeDupe folder using Configure Storage wizard.

  • Aladyreg's avatar
    Aladyreg
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Hello All,

    I have tried many things, but I have another one question:

    How exactly works restores from tape to original dedupe folder? There are backups of 30 days. If I restore data from 1 year old tape where is one day of all servers this day will be shown on the end of list of all backups? I am afraid to restore it to Dedupe, because I am not sure and I really do not want to loose all data from dedupe backups. Will restoration of tape to dedupe folder delete all backups and will replace it with data on tape?

     

    Another one possible solution: is there any way how to backup only data from all servers? Not shadow copy? 

    Thank you for your help