To your first question: I am not aware of a migration path from Data Protector to Veeam.

To your second question: Veeam V11(a) can read tapes written with V9.5. I have some of them myself and had no problems. You have to inventory your tapes after installing the new tape server and rediscovering your tape library.

You can see this thread about the new tape server. it is a slightly different scenario, but the discover and inventory is the same.

@JMeixner Thanks for sharing detailed explanation.   Will help me a lot while designing the migration of tape server.  

Hi,

we have a similar challenge (with DataProtector) in our environment and to make the story short; there is no way to migrate the backup data without restore it and backup it again; so normaly this is not a practical or feasible option.

Without knowing anything about your environment think about the following;
 

. setup a new DataProtector Cell server or convert the physical to a VM
. setup an VTL or Dedup store (maybe with a cloud connect option for cheap long term backups)
. add the new VTL or Dedup store to your old!! Cell server and do a media/object copy of the needed data (don´t forget the IDB!!)

. add the VTL or Dedup store to the new Cell
. import the media/sessions to the new Cell which you need to keep
. test a restore from the new environment
. shutdown the old environment and run restores if needed from the new Cell

Some considerations are:
. migrate (and keep) the old backup environment to a virtual plattform to keep it without hardware dependencies; auditors also like this ;-)
. be careful when you try to “migrate” the backup data to another tool mostlikely this will not work out well

. test test test ;-)

This is not a full “step by step list” just some brain storming, I hope this lead you in the right direction.

For the Veeam tape migration just follow @JMeixner advice.

Daniel

Nice procedure