Hello-
We've recently installed a 2012 Standard server that we want to use as a file/profile server, and are backing up to external hard drives. Since the drives are bit-locked, we have the external drives assigned to drive letters, which are then dedicated to the backup process.
Backups to and recoveries from the drives work perfectly on the 2012 box.
Since this is the only 2012 machine in our enterprise currently, we want to make sure we can recover user files and profiles in the event of a loss.
I have the Bitlocker feature installed on a 2008 R2 server and am unable to unlock the drive. However, when I attempt to restore from the backup, the machine provides the following error:
"The system global catalog is corrupted."
I know the catalog is not corrupted, because I can immediately plug it back in to 2012 and recover from it.
If I plug the drive into Windows 7 Pro, the system will prompt me to unlock it with Bitlocker. However, once that's done the backup software won't recognize the disk as a backup location.
So, the question comes down to whether there is a way to restore this backup on any other OS besides 2012? Is there a setting I need to enable on 2012 to allow a legacy OS to use the backup? A feature on 2008 that would allow restoring backups from future OSes?
Any ideas are welcome, and my apologies if this has an easy solution. No amount of keyword searching got me to what I wanted.
Thank you!