08-19-2014 08:34 AM
Hi Guys,
Becoming a frequent visitor here now.
Situation is we had an incident in May which destroyed our old backup server which was running BE 2010. We have since setup a new backup server running BE 2012. As it happens I need to do a restore from a tape created on BE 2010 via BE 2012.
I have managed to catalog the tape without any issues and I see the content that I want to restore however when I right click on the content all options are greyed out. Also I have noticed in the BE 2012 ribbon up top there is no restore option available when I am looking at the contents of the backup that I want to restore from.
Is what I am trying to do even possible? Have I missed a step somewhere? Any advice is very much appreciated.
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08-19-2014 08:42 AM
08-19-2014 08:42 AM
08-19-2014 08:59 AM
Hi PKH,
Many thanks for your response. I seem to have fallen at the first step of your instructions in that I do not have a B2D folder from my previous BE 2010 server. I only have the tape containing the backup that I want to restore from. Will this suffice?
08-19-2014 10:25 AM
Yes, the tape should work fine. See pkh's comment in his article 'Although this article refers to disk media, it is equally applicable to tape media. The procedure is the same. Inventory and catalog the tape(s) and then restore.'
08-19-2014 10:46 AM
08-19-2014 07:43 PM
Have you gone through my article referenced above until after the cataloging process. After you have cataloged the media, the restore is the same for both tape and disk.
08-20-2014 03:44 AM
Alas I see my mistake. Followed each step as per your article and the data is restoring right now. Many thanks pkh!
08-20-2014 07:20 AM
Ok so the data has finished restoring but it is still in .bkf format. Is there a way to pull out what I need from these files?