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Server with Backup Exec 12 crashed need advise?

The server with Backup Exec 12.5 is a DC GC and backups severn server for data, SQL and exchange 2003 has reach it's zenith, 12 years old and RAID controller keeps dying. I never had to move a Backup Exec server to another server. Please advise?

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David

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Serge Fournier

well, i had no problem mooving my backup exec to another server
it's database was on sql server
but i recreated the backup jobs (good way to update them and verify them too)

i just installed backup exec on other server and pointed to it's database (sql)

355LT1

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I will not be able to move the databse or point to a database, the backup server is not able to bootup anymore.

Serge Fournier

then you have no choice to reinstall backup exec on another server...

after that, you have to reindex a few tapes when you want a backup

but with shadowcopy theses days, i dont use the tape often

David

Seems ironic the backup has no backup :(
But for what it is worth, I've been doing RAID controller firmware/software/diagnostics since mid 80s, and you shouldn't necessarily write off your data. It may be worth starting another thread on that, in parallel.

1. Need to know make/model of controller, plus disk information and RAID config
2. Exact chain of events of what led to the failure, and since you have been having "trouble", please elaborate
3. What did you do in the past, and why is this situation now unrecoverable.
4. What have you tried to do in order to recover?

But if you want to write off the data, no prob, just throwing this out there as a possibility.

Serge Fournier

your data are on a tape right?

355LT1

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Yes

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