Okay Michael,

You can restore items off the first tape, but you should avoid restoring any
system files. Restoring partial system files or rebuilding half of the
system will only bork your machine again.

Do a full re-install. Install Backup, and start restoring data files, this
will be a long process, but it is the cheapest version.

Chris


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> RESTORE AND EMERGENCY RESTORE PROBLEMS
>
> A computer crash completely wiped out both of my hard drives necessitating
reformatting and a new Windows 2000 Professional installation. I had an
emergency restore tape backup set (two tapes) which I intended to use with
Veritas BackupExec Desktop Pro. I began to rebuild the catalog from the
Device (Seagate ST8000A) but when the second (spanned) tape was read the
following error message was returned, "This is not a continuation of the
previous media. Please insert other media to continue."
>
> Question 1: Can a normal restore (overwriting existing files) be
performed just using the Disaster Recovery Tapes (without the six
diskettes)?
>
> The backup is about a month old (July 17, 2002) and the tape drive works.
To be honest, I can't remember if I aborted the Disaster Recovery operation
while it was writing to the second tape. The Veritas knowledge base says
that if there is no catalog information available from the backup set (after
the Restore from Device option) the only possibility is to use the services
of a Data Restoration Company. This seems to be a very, very, expensive
proposition.
>
> Veritas TechNote ID: 235344 discusses restoration of a Windows 2000
Professional system using the Disaster Recovery Diskette Set. After the
final reboot the backup media is examined. The illustration in the article
seems to suggest that Disaster Recovery Media #1 is being read directly
without having to build a catalog. If this is the case then it would be
possible for me to recover, at lease, some data.
>
> Question 2: Is this assumption correct?
>
> Question 3: In case answers to both questions are "no" can anyone
recommend a good and very inexpensive (read cheap) data restoration company.
>
> Please respond to this newsgroup and also to my email address.
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who offers suggestions.

Michael,

If your Disaster Recovery is spanned over two tapes you must use the floppy
set to do an emergency Restore. If you aborted DR before writing to the
second tape there is no chance it will work.

If you upgrade to Win XP the native backup requires just one floppy and
Veritas requires three.

It is not clear what version of the package you are using. Veritas
BackupExec Desktop Pro has been obsolete since version 5, and the current
equivalent is BackUp My PC [Bump] version 4.81




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Old Uncle John

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"Michael Broumberg" wrote in message
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> RESTORE AND EMERGENCY RESTORE PROBLEMS
>
> A computer crash completely wiped out both of my hard drives necessitating
reformatting and a new Windows 2000 Professional installation. I had an
emergency restore tape backup set (two tapes) which I intended to use with
Veritas BackupExec Desktop Pro. I began to rebuild the catalog from the
Device (Seagate ST8000A) but when the second (spanned) tape was read the
following error message was returned, "This is not a continuation of the
previous media. Please insert other media to continue."
>
> Question 1: Can a normal restore (overwriting existing files) be
performed just using the Disaster Recovery Tapes (without the six
diskettes)?
>
> The backup is about a month old (July 17, 2002) and the tape drive works.
To be honest, I can't remember if I aborted the Disaster Recovery operation
while it was writing to the second tape. The Veritas knowledge base says
that if there is no catalog information available from the backup set (after
the Restore from Device option) the only possibility is to use the services
of a Data Restoration Company. This seems to be a very, very, expensive
proposition.
>
> Veritas TechNote ID: 235344 discusses restoration of a Windows 2000
Professional system using the Disaster Recovery Diskette Set. After the
final reboot the backup media is examined. The illustration in the article
seems to suggest that Disaster Recovery Media #1 is being read directly
without having to build a catalog. If this is the case then it would be
possible for me to recover, at lease, some data.
>
> Question 2: Is this assumption correct?
>
> Question 3: In case answers to both questions are "no" can anyone
recommend a good and very inexpensive (read cheap) data restoration company.
>
> Please respond to this newsgroup and also to my email address.
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who offers suggestions.