"Manual" restore of off-site tapes

[SuperSAN]

I checked with the our storage guy and he told me to Configuration > Volume Manager >Vol Group and click rescan to recognize the new drive thats after swapping disk.

Remember you will need a separate backup task for each disk drive.

[HangaS]

Hi SuperSan,

I believe that procedure is for detecting new disks. But my issue is with reading tapes (labels) that are no longer on the backup database or that never where.

[willcampos]

Did you find a solution for this?

[HangaS]

Unfortunately no..

And as far as I understood DSS internal backup does not support Scratch Media.

Also the "slot oriented" backup which forces you to have the restore tape in the same slot it was backed up is a major headache for off site backups.