Problems Restoring BE 2014 Backup Set for Non-Existing Server
I have three backup sets that were created as "snapshots" just to back up certain files on a specific server.
The server was "MyServer.domain.local".
Since the time that the backups were made, the server and the entire domain were decommisioned. The new domain includes "MyServer.newDomain.local". (same server name, new domain)
The catalogs for these tapes exist... they were recovered from the old machine. But, the old server doesn't appear in the "All Servers" group for "Backup and Restore". Recataloging the tape seems to complete very quickly, and doing so also fails to restore the server to the list. Because I can't select the server, I'm unable to restore the files, or redirect them to a new location.
If I look under storage, at the specific tapes, the Backup Sets in question can be seen, as can the old server name. If I drill-down further, I can see all of the files that were in the backup set.
How can I restore the server to the servers list so that I can select the files for restoration?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This might sound like an odd thing to have to do
1) Create a Host File entry on your Backup Exec server for MyServer.domain.local and set it to an IP address of one of your current servers that still runs our remote agent - also create an entry for just MyServer with the same IP address
2) Make sure you can ping myserver and myserver.domain.local from the BE server (even though it is really pinging your current remore server that has a different name)
3) Manually add an entry into the BE console (Backup and Restore section) for Myserver.domian.local (if this does not already exist) - this may try to push the remote agent - but as it will already be installed because you used an IP address for a current server running AWS it should skip that bit
4) Then re-catalog the tapes you think your data is on
Can you now do redirected restores etc?