Hello,

I'll be the first to admit I don't use Veritas a lot, and only in small businesses.

I'm attempting to restore a file, however the proper catalog does not show up - I get the most recent daily differential backup, but not the once-weekly full backup. The configuration is as such:

Veritas 10.1 Revision 5629, Small Business Server Suite

An external USB drive is plugged in, and a Removable Backup-to-Disk Device is configured. Two backup jobs point to this, a daily differential that runs 6 days/week, and a weekly full. The differential job is configured to append to the existing backup. The weekly job overwrites the existing backup. The USB drive is not presently swapped with other drives, it's stayed plugged in for the past several months.

I can inventory the removable drive.

When I try to catalog the drive, I get the following error: "Catalog ##### -- The job failed with the following error: Physical Volume Library Drive not found."

If I try to catalog one of the individual backup files (there are 5 .bkf files, up to 4 GB each) I get the following error: "Catalog ##### -- 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."

As I said, when I try to restore a file, it only displays the most recent differential backup. I fear perhaps the full backup is somehow being overwritten, even though I specifically instructed it not to be? Even if that's the case, I wouldn't expect the above errors.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Michael - michael@ptsolutions.com