How to restore some data created by NTBACKUP to W2008.

[Guest 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

[Guest 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."

 

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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