There may be occasions where you may want to export backup data to tape to archive, for portability, or other reasons. This recipe will provide you with the steps to teach you how to copy protected data to tape.
Before you start a recovery, verify that your tape library does not report any errors and that you have a valid recovery point to restore to.
In the DPM console, go to Recovery and choose the data source you would like to recover.
Mark the data source and choose the data and time for the recovery. Right-click on the data source and choose Recover… to start the Recovery wizard.
In the Review Recovery Selection step, review the data source that is chosen for recovery and click on Next > to continue.
In the Select recovery type step, choose Copy to tape and click on Next >...