Recovering under bootable media from a locally attached tape device

To recover under bootable media from a locally attached tape device:

1. Load the tape(s) required for the recovery into the tape device.
2. Boot the machine from the bootable media.
3. Click Manage this machine locally or click Rescue Bootable Media twice, depending on the media type you are using.
4. If the tape device is connected by using the iSCSI interface, configure the device as described in "Configuring iSCSI and NDAS devices".
5. Click Tape management.
6. Click Inventory.
7. In Objects to be inventoried, select the tape device.
8. Click Start to start the inventorying.
9. After the inventorying completes, click Close.
10. Click Actions > Recover.
11. Click Select data, and then click Browse.
12. Expand Tape devices, and then select the necessary device. The system prompts to confirm the rescanning. Click Yes.
13. Select the Unrecognized tapes pool.
14. Select the tapes to be rescanned. To select all the tapes of the pool, select the check box next to the Tape name column header.
15. If the tapes contain a password-protected backup, select the corresponding check box, and then specify the password for the backup in the Password box. If you do not specify a password, or the password is incorrect, the backup will not be detected. Please keep this in mind in case you see no backups after the rescanning.

    Tip. If the tapes contain several backups protected by various passwords, you need to repeat the rescanning several times specifying each password in turn.

16. Click Start to start the rescanning. As a result, you will get the contents of the loaded tape(s).
17. If any of the detected backups continue on other tapes that have not been rescanned yet, load these tapes as prompted and rescan them.
18. After the rescanning completes, click OK.
19. In the Archive view, select the backup whose data is to be recovered, and then select the data you want to recover. After you click OK, the Recover data page will show 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.
20. Configure other recovery settings.
21. Click OK to start the recovery.
22. 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.