Backup Exec 2012
Backup to tape
Windows Server 2008 R2
Hello All,
I have spoken with Symantec over the phone but their solution seemed utterly impractical so I was wondering if anyone has the same problem.
We have a server which runs a weekly backup of around 500gb and an incremental daily backup of around 4gb, previously when we wanted to restore data from this server we would highlight it, go to the restore tab and then choose files/folders and then choose the date of the backup required and it would tell us what tape this backup is on and then away we go.
Now it seems to only be showing one backup range which is from the 29/06/13, I can see the completed previous backups from the job history tab and it shows them all being successful and what tape the backup is on.
Symantec say our catalog is too big and that the way to restore backups from before the 29/06/13 full backup is to catalog the last full backup before the date we needed and then restore the job from there, so in essence if I wanted a backup from the 3/06/13 (a Monday) I would have to find the last full backup tape in this case the 1/06/13 then catalog this (which takes several hours) and then put the Monday incremental tape in catalog that and then restore, so we are looking at a restore time of at least half a day which seems ridiculous.
Other servers we have just allow me to select any date from a previous backup and off it goes.
Can anyone help as to how to resolve this more effectively.
Ed