Finding a file on tape

[Straubing]

Hello there,

I am having trouble with tape restore on Veeam Backup and Recovery.

We are making on Backups with Veeam of all of our servers and storage them on the backup server for 3 weeks. After that the backups will be copied to tape. Now when one of the employees loses a specific file, I am looking into the Veeam Backups on the backup server. If the file is not in there, i need to do a tape restore. A tape restore takes about 6 hours.. is there any way to find out on which tape i can find the specific file? Like a file index?

Maybe one of you guys have an idea

Cheers

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

If you enable indexing, then an index is available in Enterprise Manager. By having the date of the backup where the file is in, you should be able to find the right tape.

Best regards,
Hannes

[Straubing]

Hey there,

that's the problem. I dont know the date where the file is in the backup. I kinda need to lookup with the file name and find the right tape. Is that possible?

[HannesK]

I described the way above.

for existing backups without index: no way as there is no index.