Restoring expired backups 1

[JohnPlayerSpecial]

Hi,

I have to restore from tape which is expired but still visible on gui/not overwrited and they have physical protection on so no overwriting will be possible.

I scanned those tapes and Arcserve notified 58 sessions found etc. If I browse the tapes it says "No details found. Do you want to merge session"

Can you specify how can I restore from those tapes?

 

[fabio9]

You have to merge the session.
just insert the expired tape(s) in the library and browse in the db for the relative job.

Brightstor automatically will create and run a merge session that will load from the tape(s) all you need and when the merge job is finish you'll see again in the db all the stuffs backed up.
Note: If the backup is huge (I mean -a lot- of files numerically, not by filesize because merge sessions will only enumerate files) you have to wait until all the files are listed in the db