PCodner

i have lots of stg files how do I meke a rerestore restor from one msadon a giwn date - ther dosn' t seem to be an option restore frpm this file - otherwise the on it pick s itsays is invalid - don't knoe which one it has decide to restore from - what does it do - pick a file? any .stg file?

thanks

peter

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Howard2k

When you try to restore it actually wants to restore the most recent backup. It's pretty dumb in that respect.

So let's say you have two restore files:
Sept12
Oct 16


When you want restore it thinks "Hey, Oct16 is newer, he MUST want to restore that one, there is no possible way he'd want to restore the September one. ". Pretty smart.

So rename the Oct16.stg file to Oct16.stg.new
copy Sept12.stg to Oct16.stg.

Now it will look for a file called Oct16 and restores it, not knowing that it's really Sept12.

There might be other ways too, changing registry keys etc, but this is probably the easiest.

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Howard2k

btw, I only ever do full backups. If you do incremental then you're on your own. I'm not sure what method it uses to track file names etc. when doing incremental. You might want to search in the regsitry for the Activesync keys and see what you can find in there.

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Gdio53

Easier way:
From the backup screen in ActiveSync, change the backup file to the file you want to restore, click yes to replace; do not click on Back up Now
Go to the Restore tab and select Restore Now.
You'll be restoring from the the file you want.





(edited to clarify some steps)

14gage

My restore could not find the file, but you were right on with the fix!