Recovering under an operating system from a tape device

To recover under an operating system from a tape device:

1. Log in to the backup console.
2. Click Devices, and then select the backed-up machine.
3. Click Recovery.
4. Select a recovery point. Note that recovery points are filtered by location.
5. The software shows you the list of tapes required for the recovery. The missing tapes are grayed out. If your tape device has empty slots, load these tapes into the device.
6. Configure other recovery settings.
7. Click Start recovery to start the recovery operation.
8. If any of the required tapes are not loaded for some reason, the software will show you a message with the identifier of the needed tape. Do the following:
   1. Load the tape.
   2. Perform the fast inventorying.
   3. Click Overview > Activities, and then click the recovery activity with the Interaction required status.
   4. Click Show details, and then click Retry to continue the recovery.

What if I do not see backups stored on tapes?

It may mean that the database with the contents of tapes is lost or corrupted for some reason.

To restore the database, do the following:

1. Perform the fast inventorying.

   During the inventorying, do not turn on Move unrecognized and imported tapes to the 'Free tapes' pool. If the switch is turned on, you may lose all your backups.

2. Rescan the Unrecognized tapes pool. As a result, you will get the contents of the loaded tape(s).
3. If any of the detected backups continue on other tapes that have not been rescanned yet, load these tapes as prompted and rescan them.