1. Run an Inventory on the Robot after Market loads the Backup Exec Tapes in WRITE Protected mode.

1. Click Start to run an Inventory on the Robot

1. To update Volume Configuration with the new media’s Click Yes

1. Click Close and now the new Media’s will be updated in the Volume pool under Netbackup

1. After Inventory the new media’s will be in NetBackup  Volumepool

1. Run Robot inventory using the command below under c:\Program Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\bin

vmphyinv -rn <robot_number>  -ml <media_id>

For e.g.

c:\Program Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\bin>vmphyinv -rn 0 -ml VI2231

1. After running the vmphyinv command. It’ll ask us to update the GUID of Media from (XXXX) to (YYYY).

Click YES (y) to update the volume Configuration of the Media.

1. New GUID is assigned to the media & the same is updated in the EMM database of NBU.

1. The new media will be allocated to BackupExec volume pool.

Phase I:

1. Select Catalog and then select Initiate Import under Actions                (Top Toolbar)

1. Select Tape under Image type and enter the Media ID. Click OK

This is the Phase1 of Import which can be monitored in the Activity Monitor

1. After Import job completed successfully in the Activity Monitor start Phase 2.

Phase II:

1. Click Catalog , Select Import under Action

& Under Media ID: select the respective media and click Search Now to display the images (Bidfiles) on the respective Media ID.

1. Select all Images right click and Click Import

1. Phase 2 Import initiated and can be monitored in the Activity Monitor, after clicking OK in the Confirm Import window

1. The Import job will be completed successfully in the Activity monitor. Refer the job log or Results tab in the catalog window.

After this we can restore the data from this media which was backed up in the Backup Exec.

1. To proceed with the restore, we’ll open Backup, Archive & Restore option directly from Netbackup Console or through Program ->Symantec Netbackup -> Backup, Archive & Restore.

And the first thing we need to make sure is that the Backup exec client name is listed in Netbackup client list in “Specify Netbackup Masters & Policy Type”.

1. If the Client is not listed in the Netbackup Client properties, we can add it in the following way, after opening Backup, Archive & Restore.

Click: File -> Specify Netbackup Masters & Policy Type. Check under “Source client for restores” if the client name is mentioned. If not then click on Edit Client List and add the specified client name and click OK.

1. After adding client name we’ll select “Select from Backup Exec Backup” from the Drop down list underSelect for Restore option.

1. We can now see the data available for restore of the server which was backed up by Backup Exec. Select the required data which needs to be restored.

1. After the data is selected we’ll proceed with the restore by click on the Restore icon on the left side of the same Page where selection is made.

 - This Icon indicates to Start the Restore of the Selected Files.

After clicking it another window will open which will give us multiple ways of restoring the requested the data.

1. Restore everything to the original location.
2. Restore everything to different location.
3. Restore Individual folders & files to Different location. (Double click on each Folder/file to redirect the specific data.

1. Once the restore job is forced we can see the progress either on the same Window, or we can see the progress in Activity Monitor in Netbackup Console. This is the Window which we see directly in Backup, Archive & restore window, with the progress of the restore.

In this way we can restore our data through Netbackup,  from the tape on which the data was backed up by Backup Exec.