subject: Backup Recovery Tool To Recover Missing Catalog Of Bkf [print this page] A well-known backup source in Microsoft Windows is NTBackup. By using this in-built Windows backup tool, users can take the backup of his critical data files and get tension free. However sometimes, NTBackup does not provide 100% safety to the user. There are so many reasons where users NTBackup files can get corrupted or damaged or lost. Under these conditions, a backup recovery tool will support the user through the backup recovery process.
What are Catalog files? Catalog files are those files which allow NTBackup to restore data from backup files. These BKF files are created by default at the time of backup operation and get stored in a folder on users system and that default folder is called the Catalog folder, which comes under backup restore tab in NTBackup.
Why these Catalog files get corrupted? There are so many reasons where users NTBackup files can get corrupted or damaged or lost or missed. When a user tries to form more than one backup at a time, then these catalog files tend to share identical timestamp attribute, where user can restore only the previous files which is created first not the recent one. Due to this, backup files get corrupted. And if at the time of BKF corruption, user wants to look backup files which are created by the coordinated execution of several backup processes at a time, user will find that catalog files are missing from the Restore Tab. Here user needs a backup recovery tool to recover those missing catalog files.
How to recover missing catalog files? To recover missing catalog of BKF user requires a third party tool which is provided by SysTools known as SysTools BKF Repair software. This BKF Repair tool is used as a Windows backup recovery tool. SysTools BKF repair tool also supports VERITAS Backup Exec (BKF). It is the fastest and easiest way for recovering missing BKF catalog.