Major Trouble

[Jeff_Mock]

I'm in a rather serious predicament. I'm at a customers location and it appears as though they have no organization of their backups. They have a tape library and after so long they take the tapes out and put new ones in. So, I have all the tapes that I need, I'm just having a problem figuring out how to get the data off these tapes. I have no idea what's on them or when they are from. Is there a way to throw the tapes in the library and somehow find out what's on them. They've changed tapes about five times so they have 5 sets. Really, any set will do because every set has the same collection of data - it's just older on some than others. Please help!!

[Ricardo_Pistari]

Catalog the tapes, then you'll be able to see the contents at restore selection...

[Jeff_Mock]

Thanks for the help. The catalog seems to be huge, it's still running and is already up at 1TB. I noticed that I see a few backup available in the restore area. Can I cancel the catalog now that some of the backups are available or do I have to let it run it's course?

[Ricardo_Pistari]

if you see what you need to restore, you can cancel catalog job, no problem. For a full list of items that can be restored, you'll need to let it run.

[Jeff_Mock]

ok, I'm attempting to restore an exchange mailbox. Every appears to go through as in the job shows up in job monitor, it changes from loading media to running, but after about 1 minute of running and restoring 0 bytes, the job fails and I get this error message.

Error category : Resource ErrorsError : a000848c - Unable to attach to one of the drives.

[Ricardo_Pistari]

You'll have to close this thread and open a new one with this new error, because it's not related with catalogs.

[Ladon]

Make sure you Inventory the Media also, This is done from the device tab i think.

[Sharvari_Deshmu]

Hello,

Please open a new thread if the original issue is resolved.


Thanks,

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Sharvari Deshmukh