OscarVogel said:
Please read the following additional information and tell me if I
need to choose "Always replace" (NOT "replace if older").
I have restored the shares to a Buffalo NAS "Terastation" which does
not have NTFS. (It only has share permissions). And I think that
is why the "date modified" on the folders and files have been
changed to today's date. So I'm guessing that means that I will need
to use "Always replace". Is that correct?
Also, after restoring the "Normal" backup I discovered that the
backup log show hundreds of pages of "Unable to restore the folder"
But it looks as if everything may have actually be restored. Is
that possible? Does this have something to do with me choosing to
restore security settings (and the Buffalo NAS not recogognizing the
NTFS permissions)? In short, do you think I need to restore that
Normal backup again?
Thanks.
Also
In a prior post, you said the server crashed. That say nothing about
what actually happened. If the hard drive failed and you replaced it
then it would have been clean of any files. However, if something
else "crashed" and you kept the old hard drive then there would have
been old files still on that hard drive. So when you did the restore
from backups, it complained/warned when it attempted to restore files
that were already on the hard disk. Without any real info on the
crash, I had assumed the restore would see a clean hard disk.
Note that I am familiar with running NT Backup on Windows
workstations, not on a server. You cross-posted to BOTH a server and
workstation newsgroup, and I read the workstation newsgroup
(microsoft.public.windowsxp.general). Unless you know the server and
workstation versions of NT Backup have the same options and
restrictions as each other, you should not cross-post between server
and workstation newsgroups. I know the workstation version of NT
Backup will not support networked drives but apparently the server
version does. I gave up on the workstation version of NT Backup
because of the overly restrictive list of supported devices for the
backup file(s). Although I thought the NT Backup program (workstation
version) only supported tape drives and local hard disks, maybe it
also supports mapped drives as mentioned at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/maintain/backup.mspx?mfr=true.
However, I don't know how you access your NAS device. Maybe you get
at it via a UNC rather than a drive letter to a mapped drive.
If you had backed up from the NAS device but FAT was used on that
device then there would have been no permissions to record and none to
restore. You say that NTFS is not used now but did not mention if FAT
or NTFS was used at the time the backups were performed. From the
program's help:
"You can use Backup to back up and restore data on either FAT16,
FAT32, or NTFS volumes. However, if you have backed up data from an
NTFS volume used in Windows XP, it is recommended that you restore the
data to an NTFS volume used in Windows XP, or you could lose data as
well as some file and folder features. Some file systems might not
support all features of other file systems. For example, permissions,
encrypting file system (EFS) settings, disk quota information, mounted
drive information, and Remote Storage information will be lost if you
back up data from an NTFS volume used in Windows XP and then restore
it to a FAT volume or an NTFS volume"
It doesn't mention if warnings or errors will be recording in the
restore log. Is "Unable to restore folder" the only information
provided? Nothing in the Event Viewer, either?