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Restoring files/folders from tape backup

Discussion in 'Storage and Networking' started by cookiedude, Nov 23, 2012.

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  1. cookiedude TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 210

    Hi all

    Hopefully I'm posting this in the correct place, Mods please move if not, thanks.

    So, I have a bit of a problem. I accidentally deleted the wrong folder from our work server yesterday (Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard), but we have a nightly backup to a tape drive so I went onto the backup software (Symantec Backup Exec 2012) to restore the data. However, using the restore wizard it has been "Querying for data" for approximately 12 hours... is this normal?? Is it possible to restore files/folders from a tape backup, or would we have to restore the whole system? Do I just need to wait a long time for the system to find the data?

    We have a spare 2Tb NAS drive so I could potentially restore all of the data to this (approximately 600gb), would this be a more viable approach?

    Thanks in advance
    cookiedude, Nov 23, 2012
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  2. cookiedude TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 210

    Never mind, sorted now (y)
    cookiedude, Nov 23, 2012
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  3. lmosla_BE Newcomer, in training

    Good to hear.
    lmosla_BE, Nov 27, 2012
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