I am looking for advice on the best way to migrate my legacy backups from an older tape environment to a newer one. Here is my current setup:
Source: A Veeam Backup & Replication server with an LTO-5 drive attached.
Target: A separate Veeam Backup & Replication server with an LTO-8 drive attached.
Since LTO-8 drives cannot physically read LTO-5 tapes, I know I cannot simply move the tapes to the new library. I need to move the data from the LTO-5 media to the LTO-8 media.
What is the most efficient and reliable workflow for this migration?
Should I restore the backups to a temporary staging repository (Disk) first and then run a "File to Tape" job on the new server?
Is there a way to automate this process within Veeam without having a massive amount of interim disk space?
Are there any specific considerations for the Veeam Catalog when moving data between two separate VBR servers?