How to Restore backup files in Case that Backup Exec Server broken

To do so manually, you'd do the following:

1. Install Backup Exec on the media server. Same version as the crashed server, and patch it via LiveUpdate.

2. Put the tape with the last backup in and then run an Inventory and then Catalog on it.

3. Restore the Data & Catalogs folders to a different location.

4. Stop all the BE services, and rename the current Data & Catalogs folders to something like Data.old & Catalog.old.

5. Copy the restored Data/Catalogs folders to the installed directory and then restart the BE services.

As long as you haven't changed the server's name, you're good to go. If you don't have the Data & Catalogs folders on a backup medium, you'd have to run a Catalog job on every single tape you have, and then recreate the jobs etc.

Thanks!