Hello all,
On one of the servers I manage, (Server 2012) the restore wizard in Windows server backup only shows the past 3 days of backup available for restore. We have been using the same USB drive for backup for nearly a year and up until last week the restore wizard showed backups going back for that entire time. It is a 1 TB drive and the server we are backup up only has around 250 of space used. I have not noticed any errors in the backup for a long time and I check it at least once a week.
wbadmin get versions also only shows the past 3 backups.
Also, the Recover Catalog wizard is not available in the GUI for windows backup.
I have tried to run wbadmin restore catalog, but I am not sure of the syntax to use when a dedicated drive is being used for backup. All of the documentation I can find for that command seems to assume that you are using either a drive letter or a network share as a backup destination.
As this device has about a years worth of backups on it, I would really hate to lose the ability to restore these files. The client is a CPA firm and it is not unusual for them to ask me to restore a backup from many months ago. On the bright side, we do have a cloud backup system as well which seems to be working fine.
Thanks,
Mike