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taglerock
Level 3
6 years ago

Recovery Tool for .bkf Files?

Hello.  We have a server that crashed and it was being backed up using backup exec.  I have no idea when it was installed as it was on there when i started.  It appears that the .bkf files it created have been split up into fragments, so when trying to use ntbackup or a similar program to recover data the folders don't have everything in it.  I tried downloading a trial of Backup Exec but its giving me all kinds of problems and its the full blown server version.  What I am looking for is just a basic backup extraction/recovery tool from Vertias so I can pull files out of the backups, or if there is some other way to do this that i'm not aware of. 

Backups were made of a Server 2008 R2 server, my workstation I am attempting the recoveries on is Windows 10 Pro

  • Update:  I tried making a rescue disk and booting off of it, but it wants a file with a .dr extension to do the recoveries, i don't seem to be able to open the .bkf directly.

    • taglerock's avatar
      taglerock
      Level 3

      I spun up a VM and got Backup Exec working on a Server 2008 we had on there, but the recovery option is greyed out?  Many this software is weird.  Any help is appreciated.

       

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        taglerock
        Level 3

        Ok so after some research I have figured out that I have to add the storage containing the .bkf files and catalog them in the backupexec software.  I have tried this but it doesn't show anything i can recover.  I have also tried inventory, and inventory and catalog and nothing happens.  When clicking on catalog it asks for the name, I leave it as default, then click ok, it pops up and says "Cataloguing Disk 00001" or something along those lines for about 2 or 3 seconds, then that little pop up disappears and nothing appears to happen.  I did notice that after doing the inventory and catalog the drive now has a folder on it called BEData that I can't modify in any way, even with the domain admin.