How to restore some data created by NTBACKUP to W2008.

[ThomasAJ]

I know the backup utility in W2008 is not NTBACKUP.

Anyway I connect a USB HD to W2008 that contains the W2003 backup - Disk
Management sees it.

I go into the W2008 backup utility, RECOVER/'Another server'/'Local drives'/
Then the 'Select backup location' screen appears but the Backup location
drop-down box ONLY has the CD drive. This is strange as the description in
the 'Select backup location' screen explicitly talks about "...an external
disk attached to this server...".

OK so if this new backup utility does not work for me can I install NTBACKUP
to be used for recovery only?
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Regards
Tom

 

[ThomasAJ]

RE: How to restore some data created by NTBACKUP to W2008.

OK - I should read HELP more often (often it is useless but not this time) -
I quote below.

"You cannot recover backups that you created with Ntbackup.exe by using
Windows Server Backup (Wbadmin.exe). However, a version of Ntbackup.exe is
available as a download for Windows Server 2008 users who want to recover
data from backups that were created using Ntbackup.exe. The downloadable
version of Ntbackup.exe is only for performing recoveries of legacy backups
and cannot be used to create new backups on Windows Server 2008. To download
this limited version of Ntbackup.exe, see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82917."

--
Regards
Tom


"ThomasAJ" wrote:

> I know the backup utility in W2008 is not NTBACKUP.
>
> Anyway I connect a USB HD to W2008 that contains the W2003 backup - Disk
> Management sees it.
>
> I go into the W2008 backup utility, RECOVER/'Another server'/'Local drives'/
> Then the 'Select backup location' screen appears but the Backup location
> drop-down box ONLY has the CD drive. This is strange as the description in
> the 'Select backup location' screen explicitly talks about "...an external
> disk attached to this server...".
>
> OK so if this new backup utility does not work for me can I install NTBACKUP
> to be used for recovery only?
> --
> Regards
> Tom