Recovering under an operating system from a tape device

To recover under an operating system from a tape device:

1. Connect the console to the machine you want to recover.
2. On the Actions menu, click Recover.
3. Click Select data, click Data path, and then click Browse.
4. Select the vault that contains the backup whose data is to be recovered, click OK, and then click Archive view.
5. Select the backup, and then select the data you want to recover. After you click OK, the Recover page will show you the list of tapes required for the recovery. The missing tapes are grayed out. If your tape device has empty slots, load these tapes into the device.
6. Configure other recovery settings.
7. Click OK to start the recovery operation.
8. If any of the required tapes are not loaded for some reason, the software will show you a message with the identifier of the needed tape. Load the tape, and click Retry to continue the recovery.

What if I do not see backups stored on tapes?

It may mean that the database with the contents of tapes is lost or corrupted for some reason.

To restore the database, do the following:

If the backup is located on the machine

1. After you click Recover, click Select data, and then click Browse.
2. Double-click Tape devices. The system prompts to confirm the tape devices detection. Click Yes.
3. After the detected tape devices appear in the tree, select the necessary device and click OK. The system prompts to confirm the rescanning operation. Click Yes.
4. Rescan the Unrecognized tapes pool. As a result, you will get the contents of the loaded tape(s).
5. If any of the detected backups continue on other tapes that have not been rescanned yet, load these tapes as prompted and rescan them.
6. After that, you can select the required backup.

If the backup is located on a storage node

1. Connect the console to the management server.
2. Detect the tape devices.
3. Perform the fast inventorying.

   During the inventorying, do not select the Move newly detected tapes from the 'Unrecognized tapes' or 'Imported tapes' pools to the 'Free tapes' pool check box. If the check box is selected, you may lose all your backups.

4. Create a managed vault on the tape device.
5. Rescan the Unrecognized tapes pool. As a result, you will get the contents of the loaded tape(s).
6. If any of the detected backups continue on other tapes that have not been rescanned yet, load these tapes as prompted and rescan them.