Backing up external hard drives.

[itjem]

I've seen a myriad of articles on how to backup TO external hard drives, but I need to do the opposite. I have 20-30 hard drives that need to be backed up to tape, and I'm not 100% sure how to go about it. I don't want to use the BE Archive option since I still want to keep the data on the drive, but otherwise for all intents and purposes I'm doing an archive (The data on the drives won't be changing, so this will be a one off backup.)

My issue is, every time I plug a drive in to the server it will get a drive letter, and the next drive I plug in will likely get the same letter. How will that work with restoring? Since from BE's point of view the data in that drive keeps on changing... Is there a specific way to do this?

[pkh · Accepted solution]

It is o.k.  When you look at your catalog, you will see the files from your drives on different tapes.  When you decide to restore them, just select whatever file that you want and then do a file re-direction to some other location.  File re-direction is one of the restore job properties.

[Kiran_Bandi]

You can use view by media tab while selecting data to restore.

File Redirection can not be configured if you create a restore job by using restore wizard.

[Kiran_Bandi]

Any Update?

[itjem]

Ok, I was just checking to see if that was the correct way to do it. Thank you for your input.