Prior to performing a CA ARCserve D2D restore, you should consider the following:
If all the drive letters (A - Z) are occupied, restore to remote path will not succeed because CA ARCserve D2D needs to use one drive letter to mount the remote destination path.
On a Hyper-V server (even if you have the proper VM license), you will need to manually restore VHD files of VM and then re-register them with Hyper-V Manager.
Note: After the VHDs are registered they are not directly registered with Hyper-V Manager. You can either attach them to existing VM or create a new VM and attach those to them.
Both the database and its related FILESTREAM BLOB data can be automatically backed-up by CA ARCserve D2D, but the FILESTREAM BLOB data cannot be restored automatically with the database. This is because FILESTREAM feature is still not supported by latest SQL Server Writer. As a result, when one database with FILESTREAM BLOB data is restored, just restoring the database is no longer enough, and the folder of FILESTREAM BLOB data needs to be restored as well.
Note: FILESTREAM is a feature introduced by Microsoft SQL Server 2008, which provides the capability of storing binary large object (BLOB) data (MP3, Word, Excel, PDF, etc.) in the NTFS file system, rather than in a database file.
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