A few things you need to understand about how explorer works with CloudBerry backup files. First, explorer will automatically detect that the files were backed up with the backup product, and will automatically try to restore them when you perform the copy operation. Therefore, if the backup was encrypted you will need to make sure you have the correct encryption password set up in the options screen in the product. If the backup was not encrypted, and you have an encryption password set, then it may be trying to decrypt the files when they are in fact not encrypted. So check your options and see what’s set. But know it’s not a copy operation and a restore that’s happening. Is there a reason you want to copy the backup files versus restoring them with CloudBerry Backup?

Hi David thank you for your reply. It was just to try and get a few vital files back. Even though I didn’t think I had encryption set on the backups neither Cloudberry Backup or Cloudberry Explorer would work. They would see the files in the S3 storage but then give the error when restoring via Cloudberry Backup or copying back via Cloudberry Explorer.
I have now managed to restore from an old backup the Cloudberry Explorer and Backup program files. This has allowed me to copy certain vital files back from the S3 storage using Cloudberry Explorer however the Cloudberry Backup doesn’t want to restore properly giving my a decryption error again.

If Backup is prompting for an encryption password, then encryption was used during the backup. If you are certain no encryption was used for backup, then I'd recommend you open a support case to have the team investigate further.

Hello David

I am slowly getting a bit of our system restored but why can I see more up to date files/directories online in our Amazon storage through Cloudberry Explorer Pro than what I am able to see view / restore via the Cloudberry Backup for MS Exhange. I need to get these files back onto my server what is the best way if I can’t see them from Cloudberry Backup. I don’t want to have to download them one at a time using Cloudberry Explorer Pro.

Regards

Steven Newstead

You can synchronize the repository, if you think something happened that caused the client to be out of sync with the backups in the cloud. Are you restoring from the same computer that performed the backup?

https://mspbackups.com/AP/Help/backup-and-restore/about-backup/repository-synchronization

Hello David yes I was trying to restore to the same server that created the backups in the first place. I have the Cloudberry Backup for MS Exchange and Cloudberry Explorer Pro on the same server. I can view numerous multiple later versions of the files on the Amazon S3 Storage through the Explorer but I can not see these later files through the Restore function in the Cloudberry MS Exchange.

I have now managed to pull most of these files back onto the server by painstakingly using the Cloudberry Explorer and copying them one by one.

So, you are saying when you tried the restore and selected that you wanted to manually select files, you were not prompted with a list of files in the treeview control with a list of backed up versions under each? If so, the repository probably got out of sync. I'd recommend you open a support case to have the team figure out what happened and how best to remedy the problem.

David Gugiick's solution above is 100% perfect. I ran into same issue ...being "99% confident" I had the correct encryption password! W/o going into detail, the support folks were able to confidently resolve this for me. Turns out my pwd was typed (twice) incorrectly???! ugh! They did thorough vetting prior to discussion, which to me speaks highly of the company's support quality (guarding backup data)