Restoring an Incremental Backup

[CoreyWilson]

If I wanted to restore an incremental backup with backup exec 10d and I had all my tapes available in the drive that contained parts of that incremental backup and I selected the most recent incremental backup, would it automatically start going through each of the tapes one by one and restoring parts of that incremental from the full backup and every incremental backup up to the point that I selected?

For instance say the last full backup was on tape 1, then incremental on tapes2, 3 and 4. When restoring I choose the resource option, choose the most recent incremental backup which happens to reside on tape 4 for instance. Would it restore the directory from the full backup from tape 1, then load tape 2 and restore, then load tape 3 and restore then load tape 4 and restore the remaining? So backup exec would pull the necessary files from any and all tapes it needed going to back to the last full automatically? I am assuming that is the way it would work with an auto library.

Thanks

 

[LawnBoy]

No. BE will only restore one session at a time. So you'd restore the Full and then the most recent differential, or you'd restore the Full and every incremental up to and including the most recent. One at a time.