Tape Rotation in Netbackup

[AROOKIE]

Hello smart people;

Let me tell you that I sincerely enjoy this forum and I have learned so much from your posts. Needless to say; I am very new to Netbackup and extremely confused. My fear is that i will recieve a request for restore and I cant do it!!
Here is my Question. I send out weekly tapes that stay offsite for 8 weeks and come back to me again. If my retention policy in Netbackup is set for 8 weeks

Question: how do I run a restore from a tape that has been out of library for 9 weeks. One of the Veritas Support engineers told me that I need to Import the image back in? true? if so how?

BTW, I'm not using Vault.

Thanks a Bunch

 

[PGPhantom]

Yes, there will be no problem importing that tape back in - As long as you have not used it. What you do is to use the catalog portion of the GUI, do a phase one import that will search the specific tape for any valid image headers and then a phase two to import the required data back into your database. From there simply do a normal restore. The only thing to remember - Set the date fields to cover the date/time range in question or you may not see anything.

 

[AROOKIE]

Thanks, I followed what you suggested and i recieve the following message

INF - Found no images matching the selection criteria that were ready for phase 2 import.

What do I do now?

 

[85235]

Hi
You can use the below procedure
1. insert the tape to library which need to import
2. run inventory update
3. use command under /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/
bpimport -create_db_info -id <media id>
4. search phase 2 import, you can see all the backup history and highlight the image which you want to restore, click import
5. use the normal restore procedure to restore the backup image.