BE 10d wont create media on tape in a msl2024 - how do I procede?

[perryh73]

I have created daily/weekly and monthly tape media for a gf/fthr/son rotation.
There are overwritable tapes in the drives in the msl2024.
The jobs for these are all policy created using the wizards and the daily/weekly and monthly back up to disk work fine, just not the duplicate to tape.

I get an alert which says please insert overwritable media into drive - hp1 which is the msl2024.

What can I do next?

regards,

Perry Hackshaw.

 

[perryh73]

I should add that I have 6 jobs and 6 lots of media per job e.g. Daily, Weekly and Monthly disk to disk media and daily, weekly and monthly tape media for copying disk media to tape.
Each job is policy driven and has its own media assigned in the job itself.
Disk and tape Media set properties:
Daily -- Weekly -- monthly
Overwrite 1 week 5 weeks 1 year
Append 1 week 5 weeks 1 year

 

[Pitulu]

You should cancel or put on hold every job that you have pending or schedulled.

Then, do a quick erase on all the tapes that you have loaded into the drive.


I have the same library, but I have a new problem. After installing SP1 for Veritas Backup Exec 10d, my robotic library became offline. I deleted it, installed it again, and now I just have the 2 slots as stand alone drives but not the complete library listed there. Any ideas?
Thanks,

 

[perryh73]

My problem is I dont see any tapes in the device within Backup Exec. I see tapes in the MSL2024 admin website...
I run an inventory in BE but unsurprisingly dont see any tapes before or after.
Did you have to do any thing to the device or in backup exec to initialise the tapes and or library?
Are you using HP or Veritas drivers for this?

Perry.