Tape • Sending Orphaned Legacy BC jobs to tape

Hi Guys - scenario is as follows. Looking to see if this is possible via workaround (Powershell, assistance from support etc.)

- VBR v12.3.1 (1139)
- There are approximately 30 backup files (vbk GFS yearly) as Legacy Backup Copy Files residing on a Catalyst (StoreOnce) repository.
- The files are orphaned (the jobs have been removed)
- There are no existing Legacy backup copy jobs.
- I have several years of backups from both the VBR server VM itself and the VBR server's configuration.

I would like to send only the orphaned files to tape to free up some repository capacity. There are approximately 1PB of other backup files on the repository which I would prefer to leave alone.

The challenge is:
- A new tape job can select only from existing jobs or "whole repository". I can not choose backups or deleted jobs.
- Catalyst cannot be used as a source for files-to-tape
- Move is not possible (legacy format), as discussed in this thread veeam-backup-replication-f2/veeamover-l ... 94200.html

An ideal situation would be if there was a means of creating a legacy BC job in v12.3, which I could clone and then re-map to the orphaned files, but to my knowledge this is not possible.

I believe my only two options would be:
1. Send the entire contents of the repository to tape (over 1PB), or
2. Manually restore the backup files I need from the orphaned files, back them up again using a new job, and send those new backups to tape.

I am looking to determine if there are any other options I have not considered, and/or whether there is a means of creating a legacy BC job in v12.3 which I can use for this process.

Statistics: Posted by mbd3 — Aug 28, 2025 2:19 am

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