Need to restore NW data from Arcserve 6.1 2

[Vulturepeak]

Will Windows Desktop 11.1 read and restore a 6.1 tape? Any alternate suggestions - no space left on old Novell server.

 

[vschumpy]

Nope - backups from ASNW must be restored using ASNW.

 

[Vulturepeak]

Clarification -

Can I Read the tape and restore it to Windows?

 

[vschumpy]

Well, you probably can, but all files will be zero byte, appear corrupt, and therefore be unusable.

 

[davidmichel]

Data on a NetWare server is read by the TSA NLM when then passes it on the SMDR NLM which passes it on to ARCserve. So what this means is that ARCserve Windows can read the tape but to restore the data it must go back to a NetWare Client Agent.

 

[Vulturepeak]

Here's what I did to resolve the problem.

1. The Netware data was compressed (by Netware), hence restore to W3k was problematic.
2. Used Veritas BE 10.1 to inventory and catalog the tapes, restore the 'data' to the W3k volume and had a readable file structure (data was not readable).
3. Used STG Folderprint to find the orphans, cleared just enough space to restore those items to NW, and robocopied the restored files to the Windows server.
4. If the NW volume had not been compressed (tape compression was irrelevant - Veritas read it perfectly) I could have restored directly to Windows.

Thanks for the input.