My customer asked a question: can we read a tape written by Backup Exec 2014 without deploying BE Server? They want a lightweight solution (a small windows utility) that allow them to list contents and restore files from BE tapes. They want to be able to do it without installing and configuring BE server. Is it possible?
No. BE uses the Microsoft Tape Format to write the tape, but it is the way the data is written that is the difficult part. Imagine you are trying to decipher the contents of a .XLS file without Excel.
