How to restore BKF in Win 7

[edgudini]

Hello Everybody,

Is possible restore a Backup EXEC 2012 BKF file on a machine running Windows 7 Professional Ed.??

Thanks!!

[lmosla]

What version of Backup Exec was used to backup the .bkf?  Where was the file backed up from?  Is the Agent for Windows installed on the Windows 7 machine?

[pkh]

Yes. You can restore a. bkf file onto A Windows 7 machine. I don't exactly know what you are after but note that you cannot load BE on a Windows 7 machine and use it as a media server. This is not supported

[edgudini]

I have installed Backup EXEC 2012 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 STD Server, then I Backup a bunch of files (5 GB), three days later my Win 2008 Server Crashed Down, so I need to restore the BKF File on my PC running Windows 7 Professional. How can I do that??

[lmosla]

Do you have an install of Backup Exec running?  

[edgudini]

No, because I Cant install Backup EXEC 2012 on an Operating System for PC, It is only for Server Operating System like Windows 2003 or Win 2008, but I Haven't another server or License to do that....

[CraigV · Accepted solution]

...if you only have Windows 7, you can try to copy the files to that machine, and then use the Backup and Restore functionality within Win7 to restore (Windows Backup). I doubt this will even work though...getting a Windows Server OS installed on something as a temporary measure is still going to be your best shot.

Otherwise get hold of a desktop virtualisation application (like Sun VirtualBox), create a Windows Server OS VM, and then try the restore after installing BE on this. Sun VirtualBox would run on Windows 7.

Thanks!

[edgudini]

OK, thanks for your help!!

Regards

[stepheny_stanle]

I have tried to restore bkf file in Windows 7 after downloading ntbackup.exe available for Windows 7 but now I am facing a new issue with an error message i.e. backup file is unrecognized and cannot be used. please guide me to proceed in restoring bkf files.