Hello Veeam Team,
When I initiate a tape catalog task in Veeam Backup & Replication, it processes tape one at a time - using only a single tape drive - even if the library robot has multiple drives available. On libraries with hundreds or thousands of tapes, this serial approach creates a significant bottleneck and can take days to complete.
Proposed enhancements:
Allow the catalog task to distribute tape catalog process across all available drives in the robot, so that multiple tapes can be scanned and cataloged concurrently.
Distributed cataloging across tape servers? :) And event tape jobs.....
Enable a single partition to leverage more than one tape server please, balancing tasks across servers to further shrink processing windows.
I believe these enhancements would make Veeam’s tape cataloging far more efficient for large environments.
I’d welcome any interim workarounds!
Oli
When I initiate a tape catalog task in Veeam Backup & Replication, it processes tape one at a time - using only a single tape drive - even if the library robot has multiple drives available. On libraries with hundreds or thousands of tapes, this serial approach creates a significant bottleneck and can take days to complete.
Proposed enhancements:
Allow the catalog task to distribute tape catalog process across all available drives in the robot, so that multiple tapes can be scanned and cataloged concurrently.
Distributed cataloging across tape servers? :) And event tape jobs.....
Enable a single partition to leverage more than one tape server please, balancing tasks across servers to further shrink processing windows.
I believe these enhancements would make Veeam’s tape cataloging far more efficient for large environments.
I’d welcome any interim workarounds!
Oli
Statistics: Posted by olafurh — May 13, 2025 9:14 pm
