Question.

[jcalvetm]

Any chance of bare metal DR from tape in V12?

Thanks in advance

[Egor Yakovlev]

Pretty much none.

Can you please describe the case in more details? You see that as BMR media being able to interact with tape device directly, or vice versa some server with connected tape to "present" backups to connecting to-be-BMR stations?

/Thanks

[jcalvetm]

Just imagine I suffer an unwanted situation: Hard disks die, natural disaster or an unintentional (or intentional) erase of hard disks... anything, and the only left copy available is on tape (It is good to have some sort of cloud services, but small business sometimes can not afford it or they are not willing to pay for it).

So to speak: the only surviving backup copy is a tape. No server booting.

Do I have to setup a veeam server, recover the tape and then start recovering from there, or is there a way to boot from some sort of recovery support and recover directly from tape?
(or, as I have seen on ocasion, booting directly from tape)

So far not happened (fingers crossed), just learning about the product.

Thanks in advance

[Egor Yakovlev]

Thanks for details.

You got the case right - you will need to deploy(or have it on DR site in advance) a fresh VBR server to communicate with Tape library. Respectful connection and drivers must be established to communicate with tape library, so bare-metal-from-the-tape will heavily overload Recovery Media(not even sure if PXE Boot can do that).

You can prepare DR for your scenario:
- have standby VBR waiting on DR with target tape library connected
- in case of massive disaster in production, add tapes to the library on DR site and run inventory\catalog
- start recoveries from tape, based on your protected data: VMs > virtualization hosts, Agents > Repository > Bare-Metal Recovery, so on.

[jcalvetm]

Roger that.

Thanks for your attention