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BackItUp Restore Files Understandings

PostPosted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:10 pm
by Darrell
I’m a new user, in the sense that, I have never had to restore my system or its data from the product.

The issue:

I backitup to a server hard drive, not to a cd or dvd. That system is then backed up to DL DVD's

For the past four years I’ve been doing this and it appears to me now that the application data files that I have never backed up are needed for the restore process. I didn’t know I needed to do that until, now.

The hard drive that the backup was being completed from was completely destroyed, so there is no more application data that I can pull forward.

Now at restore time when I try to restore any data from any information file, I get:

"The file “xxxxx.yyy” is not available in the backup folder; please specify the correct backup folder."

The System files are completely restored, but I have no data files.

How do I recover from this issue and retrieve my data files


I’d like to continue doing the backup this way so I need to know what files I need to copy to the backup systems hard drive at backup time.