Guest Andy Weedman Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Hello, I use NTbackup to backup my files and system state on the server I have at my home. I do a monthly normal backup to a file on an external hard disk connected to the server via usb. As any good server admin does I wanted to test that my backups were good so if my server ever caught on fire and I lost everything I would be fine. I downloaded Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and installed w2k3. Once installed I brought the server up to the current patch level via windows update. Next I connected the usb hard drive to the virtual server and tried to do a restore. When I tried to open the backup file on the external hard disk I recieved this error "the backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used". My first thought was the backup file was corrupt. However, after reviewing the logs it doesn't appear to be since the backup completed and the verification was successful. Additionally, when I try to restore the backup from the server in which it was made it works fine. The problem is only when I try to restore to my newly built virtual server. I'm at a total loss does anyone have any suggestions? Below is the log from ntbackup. Backup Status Operation: Backup Active backup destination: File Media name: "Odd Month.bkf created 9/7/2007 at 11:49 PM" Volume shadow copy creation: Attempt 1. Backup (via shadow copy) of "C: " Backup set #1 on media #1 Backup description: "Set created 9/7/2007 at 11:47 PM" Media name: "Odd Month.bkf created 9/7/2007 at 11:49 PM" Backup Type: Normal Backup started on 9/7/2007 at 11:51 PM. Backup completed on 9/8/2007 at 1:03 AM. Directories: 6439 Files: 76179 Bytes: 56,744,750,921 Time: 1 hour, 12 minutes, and 1 second Backup (via shadow copy) of "System State" Backup set #2 on media #1 Backup description: "Set created 9/7/2007 at 11:47 PM" Media name: "Odd Month.bkf created 9/7/2007 at 11:49 PM" Backup Type: Copy Backup started on 9/8/2007 at 1:03 AM. Backup completed on 9/8/2007 at 1:05 AM. Directories: 244 Files: 2823 Bytes: 602,313,359 Time: 1 minute and 42 seconds ---------------------- Verify Status Operation: Verify After Backup Active backup destination: File Active backup destination: E:\Odd Month.bkf Verify of "C:" Backup set #1 on media #1 Backup description: "Set created 9/7/2007 at 11:47 PM" Verify started on 9/8/2007 at 1:05 AM. Verify completed on 9/8/2007 at 2:17 AM. Directories: 6439 Files: 76179 Different: 0 Bytes: 56,744,750,921 Time: 1 hour, 12 minutes, and 40 seconds Verify of "System State" Backup set #2 on media #1 Backup description: "Set created 9/7/2007 at 11:47 PM" Verify started on 9/8/2007 at 2:17 AM. Verify completed on 9/8/2007 at 2:18 AM. Directories: 244 Files: 2823 Different: 0 Bytes: 602,313,359 Time: 1 minute and 4 seconds
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