Direct Restore of a legacy backup (.nbd file) from a local disk (using a legacy local drive letter)

Direct Restore of a legacy backup (.nbd file) from a local disk (legacy local drive letter)

NovaBACKUP

On XP and 2003:

Go to:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\NovaStor\NovaBACKUP\Profiles\

On Vista , Win7, Win2008, and on any newer OS's:

C:\ProgramData\NovaStor\NovaStor NovaBACKUP\Profiles\

Open the file 'nsconfig.ini' in that folder in notepad (or an equivalent text editor app).

Find [configuration]

Add this line under [configuration]

Drestore=M:\test

'M:\test' is a temp local drive location that all data from a local disk location (which has the .ndb backup data files on it) will be restored so you have to make sure you provide drive letter for hard drive that has plenty of space since it will try to restore all of the data in the backup data file (.ndb file). There is no way to tell it to only restore X folder paths or X filenames in the backup, it is an all or nothing direct restore of every file and folder in that backup in that case just know.

nsconfig.ini should look like this (it may not have all items listed):

[configuration]
MaxTempFiles=100
MaxLogFiles=100
InitialView=0
...
drestore=M:\test

Save That file, and start NovaBACKUP.

Go to "Restore" tab and click on the "Import" button there, and select your legacy local drive based drive letter from that list, and then browse straight to the folder where the .ndb files do exist, and then select the individual .ndb file that you need to perform the Direct Restore of a legacy backup on a local drive location on.

Import will start running direct restore to that folder: M:\test, and the files and folders one by one will restore there directly in alphabetical order (with no need to index the backup first).

Once you are done remove "Drestore=M:\test" from the same nsconfig.ini file and save it, and that will make any future restore attempts not try to direct restore after that.