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Tapes not recognized

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Hi,

we've got B&R V8 Patch 2 installed on a 2008 R2 (VM) Server.
A Tandberg LTO-5 HH drive is connected to a small physical server (2008 R2). We've got BackupExec installed and want to get rid of it!
So I configured the physical server as a TapeServer.
Veeam now displays the button for Tape Backups, but the media is not recognized! It say's the drive is empty.
I upgraded the drivers on the physical machine to the latest possible 1.0.7.2 (there's a misspelling on the tandberg website, saying it should be 1.7.0.2)
BE detecs all files and folders on the current inserted media.
Any ideas?
thanks !
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Can you check whether there are no BE remnants that might prevent VB&R from working properly with the said device, such as drivers, running services, etc.?
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I stopped all BE services on the machine with no result.
Uninstalling is only an option if V&R works.
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If possible, I'd remove BE completely just to be sure it's not involved in process anyhow.

If it's not, I'd contact our support team and let them confirm your environment.

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I stopped and disabled all BE services, then restarted the server.
After a while in V&R the tape switched from offline to online but is still "empty"
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Have you tried to catalog and/or inventory it?
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Thanks for that hint.
The cataloging and inventoring fails with "Cannot inventory tape in Drive 1 (Drive ID: Tape0). Unkown Media (possibly in use my another application) "

BE is already uninstalled and the server was rebooted.
Any ideas?

Thanks!
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Can you erase medium using drive manufacture native tool and see whether it can be invetoried and used successfully afterwards?
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ok, erasing did the trick!
After a quick erase the inventoring and cataloging was successfull.
Seems like I have to erase every tape that was previously used by BE !?
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Correct, you can erase them prior to putting into use. The process might be automated via PowerShell, though.
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