Restoring a backup from tape (with Object Storage)

[Stupots]

Hi,

We have just gone all in on Object Storage, and although it has a few quirks compared to traditional repositories, I was surprised when I came to do a Restore > Tape... > Restore Backups...

Although the backups were on Object Storage before being written/synthesized to tape, when you do the restore, you can only select traditional repositories as a target to restore them to. We no longer have sufficiently large enough traditional repos to facilitate a large restore of the 15TB of VMs, just a few hundred GB in the front of the repo servers.

Is the fact that standard block storage repositories are a requirement common knowledge, or am I missing something? It certainly went under the radar when we were speccing our new storage.

Thanks

Stu

[david.domask]

Hi Stu,

Indeed, this is a limitation for restore from tape to repository.

Unfortunately, there is no workaround at this time except provisioning space for the restore or performing direct to infrastructure restore from tape.

[Stupots]

Thanks for confirming David and highlighting the restore direct from tape option, which probably won't work for these.

Interestingly it's 17 VMs across 7 tapes (a full backup point) but the restore is only using 1 drive at a time... is this also expected?