ggirao 47 Report post Posted March 24, 2014 Hello all, I'm restoring big data from a 4 TAPES LTO media set with about 1 year old, and on 2nd attempt from restoring all data the restore process doesn't go further on 3rd TAPE. It keeps saying reading and I waited about 1 day long. I also tried to rebuild catalog from the media set, but I get an error when I have to select folder of catalog destination. Any clues? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ggirao 47 Report post Posted March 24, 2014 This is what I Got Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ggirao 47 Report post Posted March 25, 2014 Update. I successfully started the Rebuild catalog process (moving the desired 3rd tape to drive) and is about 4GB and still doing (since 10PM last night). The weird stuff is the drive shows as idle (on monitor from the tape drive) and retrospect is like hanged. I still left it running because i see the retro engine process running and the new catalog file is still increasing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ggirao 47 Report post Posted March 25, 2014 Update2. Now the process is running with drive reading. IT Already swap the tape for another one.I Hope that now is ok. PS - Catalog file is huge, is about 14GB and still increasing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ggirao 47 Report post Posted March 26, 2014 Explain me please! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
twickland 69 Report post Posted March 26, 2014 Explain me please! Check the Operations Log. There are likely to be some errors reported. You will need to decide whether the errors are important or not. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeHutch 1 Report post Posted March 28, 2014 On a side note, you can set the catalog file to be compressed, if you select the catalogue in media sets list, and under options, I think. This will compress the catalog the next time you do a backup to this media set, by at least 50%. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ggirao 47 Report post Posted March 29, 2014 All done! After rebuilding media set I restored an (big) folder and sucess! Bless LTO & Retrospect Share this post Link to post Share on other sites