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mbs_pete
14 years ago

Migrating Retrospect data to BackupExec

Hi there, I've a general question relating to migrating data from Retrospect on the Mac into BackupExec 2010 on Windows. My company have recently moved to using BackupExec 2010 for their archive/...
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  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    14 years ago

    Hi Pete,

     

    No way of doing this as Restrospect isn't supported in the BE 2010 SCL. Something like IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is supposed to work this way where you can import TSM data into BE, but I personally haven't done this, nor seen any queries around it in the forums.

    Your only way around this is to restore that data from Retrospect onto something like an External HDD, attach it to the BE server and then back it up in BE.

    This would be the only way I can think of getting your information from 1 application to the other!

    Otherwise, see if you can invoke the Mac agent for BE on your BE media server. Restore data to the Mac server. Attach the library to the BE server, and then back it up. There should be a 60-day trial license you can invoke in BE for the Mac agent...

     

    Thanks!

CraigV's avatar
CraigV
Moderator
14 years ago

Hi Pete,

 

No way of doing this as Restrospect isn't supported in the BE 2010 SCL. Something like IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is supposed to work this way where you can import TSM data into BE, but I personally haven't done this, nor seen any queries around it in the forums.

Your only way around this is to restore that data from Retrospect onto something like an External HDD, attach it to the BE server and then back it up in BE.

This would be the only way I can think of getting your information from 1 application to the other!

Otherwise, see if you can invoke the Mac agent for BE on your BE media server. Restore data to the Mac server. Attach the library to the BE server, and then back it up. There should be a 60-day trial license you can invoke in BE for the Mac agent...

 

Thanks!