I have a large quantity (200+) of LTO5 tapes that are from a Backup Exec 2012 install that no longer exists here. We now using BE 15 and I have a requirement to locate some data on these old tapes. Unfortunatley, there are no good records of what is on the tapes, other than I know that these are flat file server backups (nothing special like SQL/Exchange/AD). I'd like to avoid cataloging the tapes in full as it is very time consuming. All I really need is the backup set information on them, specifically the resource backed up and when the backup was created. Once I find the resource I need from the right timeframe, I can do an in-depth catalog. I had to disable the setting to use the storage-based catalogs as that was causign our Backup Exec server to crash randomly (https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000019938).
Is there any way to configure tape cataloging to only capture the high-level information rather than the full tape contents or does anyone have a good idea on how to proceed? Any help would be appreciated!