Arcserve Checking Tape

[mbanni]

I want to know if it is possible to have a job in arcserve regularly check the tape and determine if that tape is the correct tape for that night's backup.

If the tape is wrong, then fail the job and generate an alert. This is required to determine if the user has inserted tonights tape prior to the backup running?

 

[KenB]

I format my tapes with the names I use for each days Backup and create a Job for each tape. The names are something like FIRST_WEEKLY_INCREMENTAL or FIRST_MONDAY_INCREMENTAL, any combination will work. This requires at 10 or 25 tapes, more if you keep the Full Backups longer than 30 days.
Then set up the alert message if the Job times out due to "Tape not found".

Ken