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