Recovery from LTO3 tapes with LTO5 tape drives using Backup Exec 2010

Steps:

Assign the media to Retire

Delete the media from retired media

Go to “tools” – “options” , in the “Settings” – “Catalog”, unselect “Request all media in the sequence for catalog operations”

Run Inventory on the media

When Inventory is finished, assign to media to “keep data infinitely – do not allow overwrite”

Run Catalog on the media

If there’s byte counts and catalog finished successfully, then start the restore.

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