How to restore catalogs if server crashed?

[ravishankarappa]

I have BE2014 installed on Windows 2008 R2 std. Suppose the server crashed and I get new server box, how do I get back all the catalogs etc., transferred to the new box? Supposedly, periodically I should be able to copy some directories into a USb drive and copy them to the new box after re-installing the BE2014 engine.

Could someone point me to where such a procedure is described?

Thanks.

Ravi

[CraigV · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Essentially you should be backing up the Data & Catalogs folders.

You'd do the following:

1. Reinstall the server with Windows and install Backup Exec and patch via LiveUpdate.

2. Catalog the tape you want to restore from.

3. Restore the Data/Catalogs folders on tape to disk somewhere.

4. Stop the BE services, rename the current Data & Catalogs folders, & copy the restored Data & Catalogs folders into the installed directory.

5. Start up the BE services and you have all your data back.

Make sure that bedb.bak is included in the backup!

Thanks!

[VJware]

Have a look @ these as well -

Manual Disaster Recovery of Local Backup Exec 2014 or 15 server - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH212802

Blog:- How to protect Backup Exec itself - https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/how-protect-backup-exec-itself