Can't overwrite media - ver 9.1

[nevas92]

After a snow day last week and a day without being able to change the media tape, Backupexec has been spitting out the tapes each night, with an error to "Insert over-writable media".

I've tried running test backups and the media checks out as online and over-writable, but 6 hours later, the same error.

The backup job is set to start at 10pm, and there is a log entry at 10:00:08 saying "Overwritting allocated media'LT0000x'", then the next log entry is around 2am saying "Please insert overwritable media into the drive."

Do I need to somehow re-format or re-initialize the tapes?

 

[m4ilm4n]

Sounds like it's filling the first tape and asking for a fresh one - is this an autochanger or manual-mount drive?

 

[nevas92]

Why is it always the silly, most obvious things that trip me up. It is indeed running out of room on the first tape and asking for a 2nd. Manual-mount drive.

Time to come up with a different backup plan or get a new backup device.