An annoying issue here.
I have copied some backup job vbm/vbk's to central server as a seed for a WAN job.
I have then presented that location as a wan repository on the original server.
When I try to import the vbm or the vbk, it goes through the encrypted password window, and then starts to import the backup.
Unfortunately, once it has imported, it seems that it does not link to it's repository. In other words, the backup is imported, but the repository column in the "Backups" view is blank. Because of this, I cannot map any backup copy wan jobs to this seed.
I have been told by a colleague that we can edit the database tables to fix this, but it's hardly a good fix.
This seems to happen more often than not for me. Has anyone seen this?
EDIT:
I have managed to get the imported job to link it's repository by scanning the repository instead of importing the backup. Is this scanning meant to take place anyway?
Since the seed has a respository, I have mapped this target to the original backup copy job, but am getting the following error.. Is this known, especially from my previous difficulties?
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Job started at 12/29/2015 9:46:25 AM
Failed to preprocess target Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Unable to create target storage, processing will be retried (retry 1 out of 6)