For the last couple of months I have been dealing with Backup Exec 2010.
I dont know very much about it, but have been given the task of recover all of our old media (tapes) which were created with earlier versions of BK EX.
Some of these tapes date back to 2001 - they are all written on 35GB DLT.
My question is: When I insert a tape, I run the inventory - all is OK. I then run Catalog - all is OK.
Then I run a restore job - redirect the dump to a large 2TB HDD - soon thereafter the job will fail.
The error I get is " the requested media was mounted, but it does not contain the requested backup set. The media may have been overwritten by another media server."
I read a little about the error - and in layman's terms - "... if a backup was created with another version of BK EX, then was moved to another server with a different version of BK EX - and NOW you're running a different version ---- you're screwed !"
Is there a way to simply take the data from our old tapes and simply dump them into a folder which can be easily read, and saved, etc. ?
Everything I have read about Backup Exec is that it can only be spawned from hell because no other way it can suck so bad and cause so much frustration - and just when you think you have it ficgured out - it stops working
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For the last couple of months I have been dealing with Backup Exec 2010.
I dont know very much about it, but have been given the task of recover all of our old media (tapes) which were created with earlier versions of BK EX.
Some of these tapes date back to 2001 - they are all written on 35GB DLT.
My question is: When I insert a tape, I run the inventory - all is OK. I then run Catalog - all is OK.
Then I run a restore job - redirect the dump to a large 2TB HDD - soon thereafter the job will fail.
The error I get is " the requested media was mounted, but it does not contain the requested backup set. The media may have been overwritten by another media server."
I read a little about the error - and in layman's terms - "... if a backup was created with another version of BK EX, then was moved to another server with a different version of BK EX - and NOW you're running a different version ---- you're screwed !"
Is there a way to simply take the data from our old tapes and simply dump them into a folder which can be easily read, and saved, etc. ?
Everything I have read about Backup Exec is that it can only be spawned from hell because no other way it can suck so bad and cause so much frustration - and just when you think you have it ficgured out - it stops working
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