ntbackup error

[Guest chocbrandy]

I'm recieving the following back error when trying to restore from a USB hard

drive.

 

"the backup file contains unrecognized data that cannot be used"

 

I did a full backup to a network share, then copied the backup to a usb

harddrive. For some reason i'm able to do a restore from the netowrk share,

but it is very, very slow. I thought if i copied the backup file to a usb

drive i could do it from there.

 

Any suggestions, or tips would be grealy helpful?

 

John

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: ntbackup error

 

 

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

news:E423B378-15F5-477F-ABD8-A2610ECC8812@microsoft.com...

> I'm recieving the following back error when trying to restore from a USB

> hard

> drive.

>

> "the backup file contains unrecognized data that cannot be used"

>

> I did a full backup to a network share, then copied the backup to a usb

> harddrive. For some reason i'm able to do a restore from the netowrk

> share,

> but it is very, very slow. I thought if i copied the backup file to a usb

> drive i could do it from there.

>

> Any suggestions, or tips would be grealy helpful?

>

> John

 

Do a binary comparison of the two files.

[Guest chocbrandy]

Re: ntbackup error

 

thanks, any idea how to do a binary comparison? is there a free utility or

something out there that i can use?

 

j

 

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>

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

> news:E423B378-15F5-477F-ABD8-A2610ECC8812@microsoft.com...

> > I'm recieving the following back error when trying to restore from a USB

> > hard

> > drive.

> >

> > "the backup file contains unrecognized data that cannot be used"

> >

> > I did a full backup to a network share, then copied the backup to a usb

> > harddrive. For some reason i'm able to do a restore from the netowrk

> > share,

> > but it is very, very slow. I thought if i copied the backup file to a usb

> > drive i could do it from there.

> >

> > Any suggestions, or tips would be grealy helpful?

> >

> > John

>

> Do a binary comparison of the two files.

>

>

>

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: ntbackup error

 

Standard Command Prompt stuff:

 

fc /b "d:\backup.bkf" "g:\backup.bkf"

 

 

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

news:94E88741-F535-45EB-B017-DB03E86A311D@microsoft.com...

> thanks, any idea how to do a binary comparison? is there a free utility

> or

> something out there that i can use?

>

> j

>

> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>

>>

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

>> news:E423B378-15F5-477F-ABD8-A2610ECC8812@microsoft.com...

>> > I'm recieving the following back error when trying to restore from a

>> > USB

>> > hard

>> > drive.

>> >

>> > "the backup file contains unrecognized data that cannot be used"

>> >

>> > I did a full backup to a network share, then copied the backup to a usb

>> > harddrive. For some reason i'm able to do a restore from the netowrk

>> > share,

>> > but it is very, very slow. I thought if i copied the backup file to a

>> > usb

>> > drive i could do it from there.

>> >

>> > Any suggestions, or tips would be grealy helpful?

>> >

>> > John

>>

>> Do a binary comparison of the two files.

>>

>>

>>