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Backup Exec 12.5 cannot catalog an offsite media from older version

Soundview
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Backup Exec 12.5 cannot catalog an offsite LTO4 media from older version of BE.  The system is running on Windows Server 2003 R2 using Quantum Scalar i500 library with 2 LTO4 drives.  BE mounts the tape to the first tape drive for a little while then it will unmount tape, and then it will try the second drive and basically enter a loop of mounting the tape between the 2 drives.  I have to manually cancel the job after over an hour, the tape was mount about 30 times.  There is not error logged, but still 0% complete.  Tried several times with different catalog option, same result.  Media description from BE is "(Unrecognized Media)".  Any help will be greatly appreciated. 

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Ken_Putnam
Level 6

What kind of tapes are you trying to mount to the LTO-4 drives?

Shouldn't make any difference, but what version of BE created these tapes?

pkh
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How long has the tapes been off-site?  It could be that they are unreadable due to media deterioration.