Virtual SBS 2008 lost "index" to its backups
Ok, so up till yesterday i had backups going back about 45 days on a 1tb virtual drive. Yesterday in the middle of the day my symantec mail security locked up and would not allow any emails with attatchemnts in. ended up reinstalling it with updated verision(while i was at it figured why not put the "latest and greatest"). Rebooted it after install and all was good. This morning my coworker informs me she deleted a folder (few days ago) with digital I-9's and such in it, i tell her no problem ill pull it from the backup. I go to recover the files and all it shows is last nights backup and has no idea of any other backups on the drive. yet the "all backups" tab under status under windows server backup says i have 47+ backups.
Any idea how to get the backup to reindex/recognize the backups that are actually on there?
Any idea how to get the backup to reindex/recognize the backups that are actually on there?
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No research was necessary as I am pretty familiar with SBS 2008. I'm sorry you took my comment as an accusation --- but I still wonder why you were looking at the "all backups" thinking that you actually had all of those available. The link you provided does give a good example of what you see when you are restoring, and as you will note it displays the earliest and latest backups available to you. Those may not be on the disk you have connected if you are rotating disks on a regular basis, but it will tell you which disk to attach for a specific date's backup.
It's important to look at the status of any date selected to make sure it is "available".
Jeff
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It's important to look at the status of any date selected to make sure it is "available".
Jeff
TechSoEasy
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Now with that said I really do appreciate your help on this matter, and I believe the second solution you provided will be my best course of action and was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for your help.