SCDPM - Missing Recovery Points - Where Have My Backups Gone?!

[Fazza]

We went to do a restore today of a student's work from January but we can't see any restore points!

 

 

As you can see from the screenshot, we have Restore Points from April 2018, May 2018, June 2018 and July 2018 - where have August, September, October, November and then January gone?

 

We have 2 weeks backing up to disk and then over the weekend it puts it on tape which is why you can see in the screenshot Restore Points for the 1st and 8th of March 2019 but not any other days during those weeks.

 

We have 104 tapes in the safe so I know the restore points are on tape but why are they not showing up in DPM any more, where have they gone and how do I get them back??

[ChrisMiles]

I know this isn't helpful but DPM is a nightmare, we struggled with it for 2 years before biting the dust and getting Veeam. Never looked back.

 

The other backups may have been removed from the catalog but you should still be able to reimport them. You want to check your retention settings also.