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Vlado_'s avatar
Vlado_
Level 2
6 years ago

Disaster recovery Backup Exec

Hello, I want to ask experienced users how to deal with Disaster Recovery plan for Backup EXEC server. I would like to prepare this plan, but so far all my attempts have failed. We take the condit...
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disaster recovery
Windows Server 2016
CraigV's avatar
CraigV
Moderator
6 years ago

You would do the following:

1. Backup the Data/Catalogs folders on the media server;

2. In the event of a server crash, reinstall Backup Exec.

3. Restore the Data/Catalogs folders to a temporary folder.

4. Stop the BE services, rename the newly installed Data/Catalogs folders to something like Data_OLD.

5. Copy the restored Data/Catalogs folders to the installed drive and start up the services.

This should show you your B2D.

You can consider backing up the Data/Catalogs folders to a B2D, or copying them to a folder on the backup storage.

  • Gerhard-S's avatar
    Gerhard-S
    Level 3
    6 years ago

    HI, you can use SDR for protecting the BE Server, but not with a deduplication device as a target!

    1) Use a "simple" backup-to-disk target, like USB disk or network share as target (or even a tape)

    2) adjust the selection list to not include backup-to-disk devices, especially the deduplication store

    i've attached an example picture, because you have not only to exclude the drive, but also the "Shadow Copy Compontents - User data - Backup Exec Deduplication Store"

    Hint: this component can be used to protect the dedup-store (if necessary)

    Hope that helps

    Gerhard