05-29-2014 02:48 PM
Greetings. Have Backup Exec 2012 R2 Running on Windows 2008 R2.
I have two Tape libraries: SL500 w/50 tapes, Tandberg w/10 tapes.
Somehow I am missing a backup. So, after some investigating, I found a backup log telling me that the backup was last done on tape FUL185 in the SL500 tape library/unit. It had been more than 4 weeks, and the media had already been marked as reusable. There was some more recent data on it (about 20% of the tape had been reused).
So I did an Inventory and Catalog of the tape to see if I could find the backup on the tape.
Now the wierd part. After running for about 4 hours, I get an alert message to "Please insert media INC157 into the robotic library by creating an Import media job". The Storage is labelled "Robotic Library - Tandberg", which is the OTHER tape library all together (Job name is the same, Catalog 00006).
So, my questions: 1) Did I do this wrong trying to see if I could catalog a tape earmarked to be resused. 2) If this is correct, then why is it asking for anything at all? 3) Why in the world would it need a tape in the Other tape library that has never been associated with this backup I am hoping to recover?
Thanks,
James
05-29-2014 05:45 PM
05-30-2014 05:33 AM
Thanks pkh, but not sure I follow you. I've not changed up any of the libraries. The backup I am looking for I have a log for, and it tells me the backup was done on the first above mentioned tape (FUL185) only. Further, I cannot actually find the tape INC157 that it is asking for.
If this particular tape is not found, then are we saying that I will not be able to recover any data from the first tape?
05-30-2014 09:33 AM