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VEEAM Reading and Restoring from DPM Tapes

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We recently transitioned from DPM 2012 to VEEAM v8. I am trying to bridge the gap for our old DPM tapes in case we need to get something off of them. I read in another thread that VEEAM could read DPM tapes due to the fact that they write in the same format (MTF).

I have imported tapes from DPM into VEEAM and was able to successfully Inventory them, but I have had no luck getting a catalog job to run on the DPM tape. These tapes were compressed by DPM when they were created.

The error I receive on the tape catalog job is: Failed to read tape xxxxx catalog details: Tape positioning error the end-of-data marker was reached during an operation.

Any ideas what this means?

Am I relegated to keeping my DPM servers running until the tapes expire and are no longer under our data retention policy?
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Re: VEEAM Reading and Restoring from DPM Tapes

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Do you have any tapes without compression to try with Veeam backup console?
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Re: VEEAM Reading and Restoring from DPM Tapes

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No, all of the tapes we have written to are compressed.
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Re: VEEAM Reading and Restoring from DPM Tapes

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Jeremy,
Please contact the support team regarding the error you received and let me know the case ID. Thank you.
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Re: VEEAM Reading and Restoring from DPM Tapes

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Ran into the same thing yesterday, I think in our case caused by our patching system rebooting the tape server in the middle of a job. Trying to restore files from the problem tape yielded the same thing. Luckily the source vbk wasn't yet deleted from retention cycle so we just did a quick erase on the tape and it started working fine. Our tape is a virgin Veeam tape so no difference in format, etc. It just appeared to get goofed up by the server rebooting during use.
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Re: VEEAM Reading and Restoring from DPM Tapes

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Hi rreed,
Our tape is a virgin Veeam tape so no difference in format, etc.
I am a bit lost since this topic was related to the recovery of tape media previously written by MS DPM. Can you elaborate please? Thank you in advance.
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