Backup Woes

[Tom Lake]

I run a backup every night that appends to a backup .bkf file on another hard drive.
The other night the hard drive to which I backup got full so the backup didn't
complete properly. Now I have to restore data off the backup file but since the hard
drive ran out of space, I guess the backup file didn't close properly. I have 17
complete backups on there (18 including the one that filled the drive) but I can't
access ANY of the backups. Is there a way to recover the data off the previous days
backups? If not, does anyone have a pistol I could borrow? It will be less painful
than what my users will do to me!

Tom Lake

 

[Jerold Schulman]

I run a backup every night that appends to a backup .bkf file on another hard drive.
The other night the hard drive to which I backup got full so the backup didn't
complete properly. Now I have to restore data off the backup file but since the hard
drive ran out of space, I guess the backup file didn't close properly. I have 17
complete backups on there (18 including the one that filled the drive) but I can't
access ANY of the backups. Is there a way to recover the data off the previous days
backups? If not, does anyone have a pistol I could borrow? It will be less painful
than what my users will do to me!

Tom Lake

Try deleting the incomplete backup.
If you then can't access the drive, let use know why (errors, Event logs, etc..)

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

 

[Tom Lake]

Try deleting the incomplete backup.
If you then can't access the drive, let use know why (errors, Event logs, etc..)

Thanks for the quick reply!
The file is one big backup.bkf. I appended every night rather than make a new bkf
for each night (a mistake I won't make again!) If I delete the one backup file, I
won't have ANY backups. The file is too big to fit on any other drive on our system
(1.2 Terabytes) so I can't even make a backup copy of it before experimenting.

Tom Lake

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Sorry, I am clueless.

Thanks for the quick reply!
The file is one big backup.bkf. I appended every night rather than make a new bkf
for each night (a mistake I won't make again!) If I delete the one backup file, I
won't have ANY backups. The file is too big to fit on any other drive on our system
(1.2 Terabytes) so I can't even make a backup copy of it before experimenting.

Tom Lake

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com