I work at a UK county record office. Although it is a very big hammer to crack a very small nut, we use 'Backup Exec 9.0' to backup digital image files, once each digitisation project finishes. When the tape is full, it will go into archive storage (probably off site), only to be used for recovery should one of our other (more convenient) storage methods fail (server, CD's/DVD's, etc).
Problem is, how do I show/prove to others what the contents of each tape is, either when full (and sent off to store), whilst in use, and certainly without the benefit of 'Backup Exec 9.0' to browse the tape? I have already searched this Forum and discovered that you can browse the tape's contents (technically, the catalogue of the tape) by going to the 'Restore' pane and selecting 'Media View', etc. That only allows me to see the files in their respective folders, what I want to be able to do is either print out a listing of the tape's contents, or save out the listing as some sort of file for printing or display/integration elsewhere (i.e. as an ASCII file, spreadsheet, etc). I'm not really that interested in the directory structure, just the files themselves (hopefully in some sort of numerical order), so that anyone can look at the printout or file and be able to say either, "File X is on Tape Y" or "Tape Y contains Files A-Z".
We do keep a separate metadata spreadsheet of images we are digitising, and I will add a field to log which tape an image is backed-up to, but this will be done by me manually. Is it possible to achieve this information 'extraction' from within 'Backup Exec 9.0' or, if not, does the latest version ('Backup Exec 10.1'?) give any more functionality?
Steve
