We are running servers with BkExec 9 in various offices, where no IT staff is working.
How can I test if tapes are in drive (standalone drive connected to server) in order to ask office staff to put a tape.
If you schedule an inventory job for 30minutes before the backup job then if the inventory job fails you should be able to make it alert to somewhere/someone.
Note that is assuming version 9.x of Backup Exec allows the scheduling of Inventory jobs - newer versions of Backup Exec do.