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Marius_Roma's avatar
Marius_Roma
Level 3
9 years ago

File format and naming

Where can I locate documentation about the file format and naming used by Backup Exec (various versions)? Given a directory containing a backup (incremental or set of indepentent recovery points) ...
2010
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    9 years ago

    Backup Exec created BKF files and IMG folders (ignoring the complications for deduplicatipon anyway as you shoud not really try to look in dedup folders)

    IMG folders are IMGnnnnn

    BKF files are B2Dnnnnn.bkf

     

    You look in the job log list you can see sucessful backups and if you open each job log you can see the media names

     

    Note: except for DR of the whole Backup Exec server do not replicate or take copies of the BKF files and IMG folders outside of Backup Exec, due to maintaining consistency against the relationships within Backuo Exec (see this article for more details http://www.veritas.com/docs/000015327) If you need copies on tape or secondary disk locations then run duplicate jobs.

     

     

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Colin_Weaver
Moderator
9 years ago

Backup Exec created BKF files and IMG folders (ignoring the complications for deduplicatipon anyway as you shoud not really try to look in dedup folders)

IMG folders are IMGnnnnn

BKF files are B2Dnnnnn.bkf

 

You look in the job log list you can see sucessful backups and if you open each job log you can see the media names

 

Note: except for DR of the whole Backup Exec server do not replicate or take copies of the BKF files and IMG folders outside of Backup Exec, due to maintaining consistency against the relationships within Backuo Exec (see this article for more details http://www.veritas.com/docs/000015327) If you need copies on tape or secondary disk locations then run duplicate jobs.