Partial Backup recovery

[Guest Eric]

I was performing a backup of some files using NTBackup on WinXP64. I had

left it to go overnight, and unfortunately it requested another tape the next

morning. I ended up having to cancel the job because the tape device would

not respond. I had a crash later and was hoping to recover some of the data

that DID get backed up but it keeps asking for a second tape in the set

(which doesn't exist of course). Is there any way for me to get it to ignore

that there should be two tapes and just show me what is currently on the one

tape so I can restore the data?

 

Thanks,

 

Eric

[Guest Tony Sperling]

Re: Partial Backup recovery

 

Having the data safely copied, I'm afraid, does not help you if the job

didn't finish. These programs sign off by writing a file that they later use

for restoring. Not having finished properly, I don't believe you will ever

be able to figure out what goes where or what it is called - it will just be

random data.

 

If the data is text that you wrote yourself, and you have oceans of time,

you could try and search for strings in a 'HexEditor' and save the bits and

pieces as you go along, but doing that is hardly an option except in the

happiest of circumstances.

 

Having a crash, though, doesn't have to mean that any of the original data,

that you had scheduled for the backup, has to be corrupted???

 

 

Tony. . .

 

 

"Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I was performing a backup of some files using NTBackup on WinXP64. I had

> left it to go overnight, and unfortunately it requested another tape the

> next

> morning. I ended up having to cancel the job because the tape device

> would

> not respond. I had a crash later and was hoping to recover some of the

> data

> that DID get backed up but it keeps asking for a second tape in the set

> (which doesn't exist of course). Is there any way for me to get it to

> ignore

> that there should be two tapes and just show me what is currently on the

> one

> tape so I can restore the data?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Eric