Restoring 3TB of data from tape to disk.

[T_T1]

Just wondering if anyone here know a quick/easy method for what I need to do.

I need to restore 3tb of data from my tape on to disk and give the hard drives to my client to view the data. Obviously I can restore all the data onto a file server and from there transfer it on to individual 1TB hard drives (that'll take forever). I was wondering if there was a method similiar to having a tape drive where backup exec will write on a tape and when that tape is full, it'll automatically switch to the next empty tape on the partition. I'm open to any suggestions..

 

[CraigV]

Hi T_T,

Definitely possible. As long as the tape is in a scratch media set, or appendable (you can add data to the tape) it will grab the next tape available.
Once the job finishes, eject your tapes and give them to your client!
Just make sure all the tapes in the partition are scratch, otherwise it won't work.

Laters!

[T_T1]

I'm aware its possible with tape. My question is it possible with SATA hard drives? I need to restore the data from tape on to hard drives.

Thank you

[teiva-boy]

 You'll have to restore it in sections...  Or just buy two 2TB drives in a NAS enclosure or DROBO and give that to the customer.  This way you'll have some 4TB of capacity in a JBOD or RAID0 array.

[T_T1 · Accepted solution]

Great, thank you.