BE 9.1 Media Not Showing in Restore Window

[FLETCH87]

I will try to be brief with the details:

1. Media Set contains two tapes for our weekly Full system backup.
2. Our Full system backup currently only uses one tape (under 200G) (therefore, in the cycle, we only use one tape each month).
3. Both tapes are in my tape loader.
4. Inventoried the tapes - Tape 1 of 2 was last written to on 5/21, Tape 2 of 2 was last written to on 4/16 (this is the one I want data from)
6. Cataloged Tape 2 of 2 sucessfully (takes 16 hours).
7. When I try to restore the files, the media that was modified on 4/16 is not showing (both Resource and Media view) - tape 1 of 2 shows properly and the only entry in the catalog for 2 of 2 shows 2/21 - the first time the media was written to).

It appears the catalog will not pick up the files for the 4/16 backup (the backup completed sucessfully). Any ideas or suggestions would be apprecited.

Thanks in advance.

 

[steveot]

Stop the backup exec services
Move all the files from C:\program files\veritas\backup exec\nt\catalogs to another location.
Start the services
Goto tool-option-catalog and remove the check from use storrage base catalogs.
Run an inventory then catalogs on the tape you think your trying to restore from. This will provide you byte/byte whats on the tape.

After your all done, move the catalogs back.

 

[FLETCH87]

Thank-you for the advice . I will try this on Monday and post my results.

 

[FLETCH87]

It worked like a charm. Sorry for the late response but on Monday, my Exabyte 110 decided to die over the weekend.

Thanks Again