Restore issue

[GSC]

Hi,

We have an issue when restoring files on a server with Arcserve 11.5.
The tapes are from 2006 and after merging them into the database I can only see the session 00001 and 00002. The problem is that I don't see the subfolders for each session, which I do on newly performed backups. The merge process works well, both tapes are merged in the DB but still no tree structure available.
I would like to avoid restoring the 300+ GB just to get to one file.

Any ideas?

Regards,
GSC

 

[davidmichel]

try a Restore by Media and then add an include filter for the file.
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCserve Backup\Base\Task\Merge key:

DonotUseCatalogMerge
Set DonotUseCatalogMerge:REG_DWORD:1 (TRUE) to disable the use of catalog files. The default is 0 (FALSE).

 

[GSC]

I will then have to restore all the data from that media, right?

We did another test today where I de-installed arcserve and reinstalled it and merged these two tapes again.
What I found very strange are the restore sessions. For this backup there are two restore sessions available, one is called Monthly 8-1 and the second one is called Monthly 8/1
In each restore session there are two backup sessions called Session 00001 Monthly 8/1 and Session 00002 Monthly 8/2 (sequence 1 & 2)

Thanks,
GSC

 

[davidmichel]

the sequential merge has nothing to do with restore. it configures the merge operation to read the data on tape instead of using the catalog files to do the merge.