Forum Discussion

informatica-cat's avatar
informatica-cat
Level 3
9 years ago

Replace tapes on autoloader while backup jobs executing

Hi, I am using Backup Exec 15 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. I have a HP Autoloader 1/8 G2. Usually I replace each day the tapes used by the backup jobs and this way the backup jobs always have ...
15
Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Best Practice
Managing Backup Devices
Tip-How to
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    9 years ago

    Just mark the solution that helped...but manually placing hardware offline and then placing it online isn't efficient and you should be looking to automate this.

    Thanks!

  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    9 years ago

    That does not sound right as I would not expect you to have to touch the LCD menu on the library to do an import and export as backup Exec should do these actvities for you.

     

    I also would not expect to have to take the library offline.

     

pkh's avatar
pkh
Moderator
9 years ago

So what you are saying is that there is not need to do an inventory after an import job.  BE will try the imported tapes to see whether they are suitable.  Is this still true when the import job is done, say 10 minutes, before the backup job.