Start catalogues and media sets from zero
Hi,
My catalogs seem to be unusable. If I select an older file to restore for test purposes I get the message "Catalog Driver: Folder or file not found." As I repeatedly deleted files on disks (its an RB2D environment with four Disks) and within catalogues I guess I should start from scratch. I found a document, where Ken Putnam says:
If you really want to get rid of all your old catalogs and backup info, you also need to shut down Backup Exec, then delete the contents of your catalog folder and B2D files.
Does that mean that I have delete the whole content of Backup Exec\data folder AND run Beutility and goto "Recover database" and select "Begin with new database", as it is discussed in the cited document?
Finally I would like to have a fresh catalogue, i.e. no restore options are available and my media set named "B2D" is empty and and numbering for media names is starting from one (B2D000001 etc.)
Thanks a lot for a clarification.
Regards,
Stefano
Does that mean that I have delete the whole content of Backup Exec\data folder AND run Beutility and goto "Recover database" and select "Begin with new database", as it is discussed in the cited document? No you dont have to use Beutility no
No you dont need to run Beutility as you dont need to configure every thing from the scratch .
All you job and configuration is stored in the BE database and ideally the database file location is in Data folder, unless you have you backup exec database on a full blow SQL server.
All the resrtore selection are generated by the catalogs which are in the catalogs directory . so if you just rename the exisiting one to old and create new catalog folder , you will get a blank selection list and as in you run new backup the catalog will be written to the new catalog directory . If you want to restore from a old backup set i.e bkf file . you would need to run a catalog to generate the selection list for the data in that backup set .
Hope this helps