Can we restore the data to a server which is not a NBU client?
- 13 years ago
Good responses above...
Not clear about the meaning of - "destination server" and "non-NBU client" - in your original question - please clarify in detail...
All NBU Servers have NBU Client within them, and so, would allow a NBU restore coming to it. But, if you mean restore to a box that has absolutely no NBU software installed (no server, no client) - no, you can't restore to it, since it's NBU Client that accepts the incoming restore data, unformats it, and restores it. The OS, by itself, doesn't have any software to accept incoming NBU data, much less unformat it or restore it...
Second, the box where you restore to, should be same OS type and version as the source client OS, otherwise we can lose somethings during the redirected restore (depending on the source and target OS)...