Before You Begin

Before you start the file restore from tape, consider the following:

If the tape backup contains a large quantity of files, for example, more than 1 000 000 files in 1 000 folders, you must provide the following system resources for restore: backup server — 2.6 GB RAM per each 1 000 000 files.
If a job is unable to complete within 21 days period, it will be stopped with the Failed status.
Veeam Backup & Replication does not support restore of symbolic links backed up on one file system type to a different file system type. For example, you cannot backup files and folders with symbolic links on a Windows system and restore them to a Linux system.

Limitations for NFS File Share Restore

If you restore files to the NFS file share running a different NFS protocol version than the NFS version of the source file share, Veeam Backup & Replication does not restore security attributes.

Limitations for NAS Filers Restore

Restore to the original location is not supported for backups to tape from NAS filers (NetApp Data ONTAP, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM/DG Series, Dell PowerScale or Nutanix Files Storage).

Limitations for NDMP Volumes Restore

Before you start the volume restore from tape, consider the following:

Only restore of whole volumes is supported.
[For standalone NDMP volumes] You can restore NDMP volumes only to the original location or to a similar NDMP server.
[For NetApp NDMP volumes] Due to technical limitations of the SnapMirror technology, you cannot restore NetApp NDMP volumes to the original NDMP volume. You must create a new Data Protection (DP) volume in the restricted state and use it as a target for restore operations.

During the restore operations, the DP volume is available only in the read-only mode. You can switch the volume to the read/write mode at the Options step of the Restore from Tape wizard. Switching the volume to read/write mode breaks the SnapMirror relationship and cannot be undone.