Direct Restore of a legacy backup (.ndb file) from a single tape drive

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Last Updated: Mar 09, 2015 04:45AM PDT

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 location that all data from a local disk location 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 single tape drive in the list of devices there. Note: This Direct Restore of legacy backup on tape function still exists in the 20.x and newer versions, but backup to a tape device is not support as of 20.x, and hence restore from tape and indexing backups on a tape, as functions in the app, are all unsupported in the 20.x and newer client versions now, which means that the NovaBACKUP Support team can't support you for any issues doing backup/imports/restores to or on a tape device.

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.