Hi guys, consider me an almost newbie in terms of BackupExec.
I have three servers:
- Windows 2008 r2 - BackupExec 2012/Tape drive is on here
- Windows 2012 r2 - this is a server to backup to the tape drive
- Windows 2019 Standard - this is a new server just added
I didnt install/setup the BackupExec but the search function crashes the app and its driving me mad with how slow it is etc. I would like to switch the backup system to either the 2012 or 2019 server (would need to get a new controller card for either). I know this version of BackupExec will not work on them and would need to purchase a new one. Either way a question I have is that if I was to simply install a new version on a newer server and did not do a migration of data (as it feels like its a total mess and would like to start a fresh). How would you create a new catalogue of the tapes already been used? Would it be a case of inserting the tapes one by one and doing a catalogue on them. There is about 125 tapes to go through.
If I were to try Migrate the catalogues, would it be simple to go from such an old version to a new version?
Sorry for the newbish question but thought I'd give the questions a shot!
Thanks for your time :)
