Tapes not recognised as in drive!

[Tony_Stead]

I'm a bit green at using backup exec - In fact an external IT company installed the drive, software and backup routine.

I'm running Backup exec 9.1 on a Windows Server 2000 with a Dell Dat72 drive.

I have a Monday to Thursday schedule (every day 4 Tapes) and a weekly shedule (every Friday 4 different tapes).

The Dat Drive recently fell off the server and a reboot sorted that out - But in the process I deleted the daily backup schedulel. Upon recreating it, I have obviously missed something!

I have to relabel or format a tape each day before the backup will run. For example - The backup ran fine last night on the Monday tape (after relabeling it), I ejected it and put the Tuesday tape in ready for tonight's backup, but when I check which tape is online, it's the Monday tape even though it has been ejected and the Tuesday tape is in the drive. Even if I then eject the Tuesday tape and reinsert it, it still shows as the Monday tape!

I have tried erasing the weekly tapes - Once erased they show up as online, but when reinserted they revert back to not showing up as online.

Can anyone help me out?

[Ken_Putnam]

Don't know why it acted differently before, but every time that you change tapes, you should run an inventory and let BackupExec read the header of the tape that is mounted

[Asma_Tamboli]

Hello,

Either an inventory or a restart of the backup exec Services is needed for backup Exec to recognise the tape.

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