Backup Exec 2010 restore
I have two servers that I back up to, one is our mail server running Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003 and the other server is a Windows 2008 server running file and print services. The external 500GB hard drives are plugged into the Win 2008 server and a share has been created
Share name on the external USB HD is DataBackup
The data is stored on \\win2k8svr\DataBackup\Mai
I backup the Win 2003 server using Backup Exec v9.1 to a location on the 500GB external hard drive. Backups are successful
I wanted to make sure that I was able to recover from a server failure so I installed Backup Exec 2010 on one of our offline test servers and attempted to restore the data but that is where I am confused.
After I plugged in the drive to my test server, I go into Devices, hilight Removable Backup-to-Disk Devices and add the drive location in into the path. Once that is done, run an Inventory then a Catalog. The catalog is slow and was taking hours to go through. I never did let it finish because I thought something was wrong. If we did have a catastrophic failure, waiting 1/2 a day for the USB HD to catalog would be teadeous.
So what am I doing wrong? Is there a better way?
Share name on the external USB HD is DataBackup
The data is stored on \\win2k8svr\DataBackup\Mai
I backup the Win 2003 server using Backup Exec v9.1 to a location on the 500GB external hard drive. Backups are successful
I wanted to make sure that I was able to recover from a server failure so I installed Backup Exec 2010 on one of our offline test servers and attempted to restore the data but that is where I am confused.
After I plugged in the drive to my test server, I go into Devices, hilight Removable Backup-to-Disk Devices and add the drive location in into the path. Once that is done, run an Inventory then a Catalog. The catalog is slow and was taking hours to go through. I never did let it finish because I thought something was wrong. If we did have a catastrophic failure, waiting 1/2 a day for the USB HD to catalog would be teadeous.
So what am I doing wrong? Is there a better way?
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If it is in the default location, it would be: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\Catalogs
You could use something like Windows Backup to copy the folder to the external drive.
You could use something like Windows Backup to copy the folder to the external drive.
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