Good afternoon, Quick rundown of situation: Windows Server 2003 Brightstor Arcserve r11.1 On the server we have a 600Gb array that we backup various workstations and servers to. For redundancy we'd like to backup the hard disks to tape (the *.ctf files). The tapes would be a full backup of the previous night's backup run. (CTF Files gen'd by Arcserve) The tapes then get stored for 1 week and then are over written again. Is there a way to restore files from the CTF files?
Can I restore them from tape to a certain directory and then access them with the Arcserve manager? Or is backing up those CTF files from previous days relatively pointless? RE: Restoring files from CTF Files? (Instructor) 24 Jul 05 15:23. Once you understand the principle behind it it's very easy to understand: When formatting media ARCserve writes a header to be able to read the tape, this is the HEADER.CTF file For each session ARCserve backs up there is a J0000XXX.CTF file. The *.CTF files, in fact, are archive files.
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When you restore a file or folder ARCserve extracts information out of the *.ctf files When backing up to tape exactly the same happens but you cannot 'read' tapes the way you read disks so the *.ctf structure is not visible for users. With tapecopy ARCserve copies the *.CTF files directly to tape so for ARCserve it doesn't matter whether the data resides on disk or tape media.
ArcServe CTF Files Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:47 am I have a bunch of ctf files (containing a huge amount of files) from arcserve which were created using arcserve backup and linux agent. Restore of archived data on USB drive - ArcServe ctf files. Does the USB have a Folder structure with in it or do you just see CTF files in the root directory?
Doceri desktop license key. Keep some things in mind with tapecopy. The easiest way for tapecopy is to copy to blank media, when using formatted tapes you MUST enter tape name, random id and sequence number (it's hard to script this).
Tapecopy doesn't merge information automatically, you can use the -g switch to achieve this. Regards RE: Restoring files from CTF Files?
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I am running ArcServe Backup on a NAS server with File System Devices enabled. So all the backup files are on the local system of the NAS server. I recently replaced an old drive array with a more stable and larger set up. I copied the CTF files from old drive onto new drive. Problem is that the data it is not being recognized as a backup, ArcServe still thinks it is on a drive that doesn't exist anymore. How do I fix that? Also, in the past when I ran outta of room on drive I just deleted the oldest CTF files, but that left all the old session IDs listed still.