Restored File Geodatabase Giving Catastrophic Error

[WillPlatt]

I recently received this error while trying to connect to a File Geodatabase stored on our Azure file share.  I asked our IT department to restore the File Geodatabase through Veeam and after the restoration of the File Geodatabase Pro gives me a Catastrophic Error message.  We tried this with a couple backups from different days and we get the same result. 

I have also tried the Restore File Geodatabase tool and it was only able to save a couple of feature classes.

We also tried restoring the File Geodatabase through the Azure system, but that system only allows the restoration of 99 files in a folder.  This File Geodatabase had many thousands of files.

I have a couple of questions:

1.  Are there any additional files outside of the File Geodatabase that also need to be restored?

2.  If I cannot rely on our software to backup File Geodatabases, how do we back them up?

Thanks!

[JoabelBarbieri]

Same here...need solution form Esri

[BobBooth1]

Hi Will,

I would suggest a backup workflow where, after your set of users of the File Geodatabases in question are logged out, you make copies of the file geodatabases, zip those copies, and move the zipfiles to some cloud share backup location. You could put each zipfile in a folder with the date appended to the name, to have a series of snapshots to potentially restore to.

File geodatabases, as you noted, have a lot of files, and it is important to back them all up together and have synchronous copies of all the files from the same time snapshot. 

See this page:

https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/problem-arcgis-pro-and-cloud-storage-services-00002560...

The way I'd automate this is with a Python script, run by a Windows scheduled task.

The restore process would be to manually go to the file share, open the folder, get the correct date version of the zipped File Geodatabase,  and replace the database on the user's machine with it.

Hope this helps!

Bob