suppression of Grayed tape

[JoCorm]

Hello Veeam community!

i thought it could be a good idea to do some clean up in my tape infrastructure and i deleted around 100 greyed tape.

Now i realize that those grayed tape were needed for on tape restauration...

What could i do the resolve this issue? Do i need to add those tape back in the librairie and catalog them? inventory them?

I tried to open a case with Veeam, but my manager didn't renewed the contract and i'm on version 11.

Any help will very help me. i'm screwed...

thanks!

[david.domask]

Hi JoCorm, welcome to the forums.

Two ways to get the tape catalog data back into Veeam:

1. Catalog the tapes as you already noted. Cataloging may take a bit so please be prepared for this.
2. If you have a configuration backup or database backup, you can do a restore of that, but I recommend restore to new database instead of overwriting the original. You will still want to catalog the necessary tapes (as indicated by the tape restore wizard), but this will at least help you know which tapes need to be cataloged for your immediate restore needs.

[JoCorm]

Thanks for your answer.

if i catalog the tapes, is it possible that some backup set will be broken? i tried already to catalog a mensual backup from Febuary, but the backup set appears to be broken.

[david.domask]

You're quite welcome JoCorm.

Let's not use the word broken, as likely it's not broken, just incomplete. As soon as the rest of the tapes for the backup set are inventoried/cataloged, restores will be possible.

This will depend a lot on how your jobs were configured, which is why I suggested restoring the configuration database to a separate and new database temporarily to see which tapes you need for the restore you need, and then catalog those tapes and restore.

[JoCorm]

Hello David,

What's the best way to switch between the main database and the 2nd i create with the catalog on it?

Thanks!!

[david.domask]

Hi JoCorm,

Use the Database Configuration Utility; it gets installed by default, and it's the correct way to switch like this safely.

[JoCorm]

Do i will very need to re-enter all saved password if i jump from a database to another one? This look scary no?