Newbie Q: Restore not finding backup dir (FAQ?)

[Zed3]

Hi,

I recently had to have my system disk replaced, and I performed an Fbackup of the drive. I only ran one full backup. The system is back in my hands, so I want to resture the c:\users\<username> from the backup. They performed a clean slate installation of the base OS (Win 11), so nothing survived. I plugged in the external drive with the backup on it. I installed fbackup on the system, and when I run it, the restore option is greyed out, as it doesn't have knowledge any fbackups were done on it. All I want is to extract my original directory that was in c:\Users\(username).

I tried to search on the external drive for the .fbk file from the old system, and it doesn't find any. Should I go and configure a new backup to go to the same location as the previouos backup and it will find what I need to restore?

Any advice would be appreciated!

[Adrian (Softland)]

Hi,

You can open in FBackup the .fkc catalog file from the backup destination.
That will load the backup job in FBackup so that you can run the restore.

[valiantlycloak]

I have the same issue and successfully fixed the error. Thank you so much Adrian.

[Adrian (Softland)]

Hi,

I'm glad the problem is fixed.