BE Restore help

[chipmat]

I'm trying to perform a restore job(this is my first restore w/ Veritas BE). I have cataloged the media (which is shown as completed in the job monitor pane), but when attempting to run a restore (by right-clicking the tape in the right hand pane of the Device Management view and selecting restore) I recieve an error stating: The selected media was not found in the catalogs. You must first catalog the media if you want to use for restore operations.

Any suggestions?

 

[SQLBill]

Go to the RESTORE tab. Your list of cataloged media will be there. Check to see that the backup you desire to restore is actually there.

-SQLBill

 

[chipmat]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I just ran a catalog job, and checked the RESTORE tab and verified that no cataloged media are listed there.

 

[SQLBill]

Make sure the correct tapes are in; inventory them; then catalog them. Then see if they show up in the RESTORE tab.

-SQLBill

 

[chipmat]

I verified that the correct tape is loaded, ran an inventory, ran a catalog, clicked on the RESTORE tab, and no media are listed.

 

[dprello]

I'm currently in the same boat. I inventory and catalog our tapes but to no avail.

 

[gbaker]

I was there with you. Found to articles on Veritas' site with instructions that finally worked.
Option 1 was to update to the latest MDAC
Option 2 was to stop all the BE services, rename VERITAS\Backup Exec\NT\Catalogs and rename betopcat.idx to .old and retstart the services.

links are below

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/240960.htm

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http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/250196.htm