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Advice on recovery catalog info from Backup exec 8.x with NSE

Alex_Vasquez
Level 6
Hello there,
I'm hoping I can get some help here. Here's my situation:
We have a court order to recover email from 2002 and 2003. Those backups were taken with Backup Exec 8x, 8.6 more accurately, I think. Anyway, the server that was running backup exec no longer has that software installed on it. Also, I don't know if any catalog tapes exist. However, I do know that backup exec was running the 'Storage Exec' software. Additionally, there appears to be a SQL database on that old backup server with backup job data and such.

My question becomes this: Can I recover the catalog information from the backup exec environment using the SQL Server's data? What might be some other options on this matter? Any help is appreciated.
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Keith_Langmead
Level 6
Once you have the backup software setup and able to read your backup tapes you can run a catalog job on them which will then rebuild the catalog information and allow you to find and restore the backup.