Hi:
I recently inherited a Backup Exec 2010 R3 environment. While I am moderately proficient with NBU I had never worked with or saw BE. The intention is to abandon the environment and migrate to NBU or some other protection solution. There are over 30 TB of storage being used for disk backup jobs. Many of these jobs had not been run for some time as tapes needed to be rotated out of their libraries. Currently nearly all the tapes in the libraries have been replaced by Scratch and I have initialized them for use. I have run every duplication backup to tape job configured and around 90% of them fail. The failure codes are generally: "e0009444 - The requested source duplicate backup sets catalog record could not be found. Perhaps the media containing the source backup sets was previously deleted. For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-37956"
I have inventoried all 7 of the disk backup devices, why they are carved into 4 GB chunks for Terabytes worth of storage is beyond my comprehension but ... I am also in the process of cataloging all the disk storage. Many are failing with "Catalog 01521 -- The job failed with the following error: The requested media is not listed in the media index and could not be mounted. To add the media's catalog information to the disk-based catalogs, run an inventory operation on the media and resubmit the Catalog operation." Sounds like I am going in circles. Should I have catalog-ed before the Inventory? Seems strange from a NBU perspective. The intent is to get disk storage to tape should a restore be required and decommision the environment. There are other errors associated with the catalogue process indicating that it wants physical media like tapes. "Catalog 00799 -- The job failed with the following error: Physical Volume Library Media not found." I did notice that when I go under Devices and select one of the disk storage "groups" in the right panel where the 4 GB chunks of disk media "live" I can select groups and vault. From the help menu this does not sound like NBU vaulting where I can duplicate the disk unit contents to tape or any other media. Kindly advise on what is the best way to get the disk storage to tape if I am fumbling. I am aware of the process detailed in a Symantec TN about migrating BE tapes into a NBU environment should this be desired. Thanks for any and all assistance.