John_Hosking
20 years agoLevel 3
Metabase.bin file not backed up by BEWS 10.0?
Have any of you seen that Backup Exec for Windows Servers 10.0 does not back up the file Metabase.bin? I have...
Last night I had some troubles getting my IIS 5 web sites back up after rebooting my server (because of other crashes). I noticed that the Metabase.bin file in my \system32\inetsrv directory was only 1KB long, although an older one from 2003 was 314KB. The Metabase.bin file holds the settings for IIS 5, so I thought I'd just restore the previous night's copy and maybe I'd rescue myself. I guessed that somehow the Metabase.bin file had been corrupted, but thank goodness I make backups.
It turns out that BE had not backed up that file. It backed up the old copy from 2003 (with its different name) but not the live version of Metabase.bin.
Next (scary) question: What other files does BE not back up?
I've checked my logs, but no errors or warnings were reported about Metabase.bin. "All" the files were successfully backed up, say the logs.
I am not using AOFO. My settings under "Advanced" in the "Open file backup when Advanced Open File Option is not used" is With a lock. Does this somehow tell BE to not back up Metabase.bin?
Thanks,
John
Last night I had some troubles getting my IIS 5 web sites back up after rebooting my server (because of other crashes). I noticed that the Metabase.bin file in my \system32\inetsrv directory was only 1KB long, although an older one from 2003 was 314KB. The Metabase.bin file holds the settings for IIS 5, so I thought I'd just restore the previous night's copy and maybe I'd rescue myself. I guessed that somehow the Metabase.bin file had been corrupted, but thank goodness I make backups.
It turns out that BE had not backed up that file. It backed up the old copy from 2003 (with its different name) but not the live version of Metabase.bin.
Next (scary) question: What other files does BE not back up?
I've checked my logs, but no errors or warnings were reported about Metabase.bin. "All" the files were successfully backed up, say the logs.
I am not using AOFO. My settings under "Advanced" in the "Open file backup when Advanced Open File Option is not used" is With a lock. Does this somehow tell BE to not back up Metabase.bin?
Thanks,
John