Rebuilding / Re-Creating an snapshot from a selection of LTO Tapes

[J_Airaphon]

Hi,

This question might seem a request that's too simple for this forum of experts but I'm not sure where else to turn to.

I have a situation when the company I used to work for went bust and I have been given the LTO 6 backup tapes as I took the existing clients in incase I needed them for recovery.

I'm very much an inexperienced user of Veeam. I know a little about what it does and how to restore data from a snapshot, but not much more than that at this point ( though I am willing to learn).

What I would love to know from someone, so as not to waste my time trying to learn about tape backups only to find out it cant be done... is...

Can I rebuild a new snapshot /recover the tape back up data from just the tapes alone, using the Veeam software?

*note it was all backed up using veeam (GFFS).

Any help would be massively appreciated

James

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

If the backups are readable (meaning complete and unencrypted), then you can restore from tape. Yes. That's the main purpose. Veeam backups are self-containing "stand-alone" backup files (the VBKs)

As you say that the customer used GFS, there must be VBKs on the tape. Also a combination of VBKs and VIBs allows restore, of course.

You can restore to a repository or directly into the hypervisor
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100

Inventorying tapes is probably the first step you need: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100

Best regards,
Hannes

[J_Airaphon]

Thank you Hannes