HI all,
I had a system lose a couple of harddrives and had to restore data that had
been backed up using the backup utility with SBS. When we restored we can't
find the backup of the my documents redirect folder anywhere. My
understanding was the backup backed up everything except what we have
excluded.We didn't exclude this as far as we know.When the backup shows it
is doing a shadow copy of the partition and then a regular backup. Is there
a different place we need to be lookingat on the tape. I am not sure if the
shadow copy has to be looked for differently than the restore and look at
the files.

thanks for you help
Bob

Re: backup and restore by Merv

Merv
Thu May 15 04:33:12 PDT 2008

Hi Bob,

The SBS Backup Wizard should back up everything. It sounds like you didn't
have to do a 'complete' restore of your server (didn't need to restore the
system partition). The default location for the 'redirect folder' for each
user is: <SBSservername>\Users\Username\My Documents. Is it possible that
you changed this to a different location and then hid that folder by placing
a '$' after the name? If so, you may need to change the folder view on the
server to reveal the hidden folder. A little more info about how you did
restore (what procedure you used) might be helpful.

--
Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"HCt" <b_hardinnospam@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:Q2UWj.7715$hv2.2728@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> HI all,
> I had a system lose a couple of harddrives and had to restore data that
> had been backed up using the backup utility with SBS. When we restored we
> can't find the backup of the my documents redirect folder anywhere. My
> understanding was the backup backed up everything except what we have
> excluded.We didn't exclude this as far as we know.When the backup shows it
> is doing a shadow copy of the partition and then a regular backup. Is
> there a different place we need to be lookingat on the tape. I am not sure
> if the shadow copy has to be looked for differently than the restore and
> look at the files.
>
> thanks for you help
> Bob
>