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Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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Hello ,

Since Update to Version 9.5 of Veeam B&R i see an "old" LTO5 Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes .
It is impossible to delete it from Catalog , or delete it anyway . We dont need this Tape anymore and it difusses when you look in the Tape Overview .
How is it possible to remove this Tape from the Catalog ?

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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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Similar problem here - but slightly worse:

- old cleaning tape is no longer present in the library and is shown as offline in unrecognised tapes
- automatic tape cleaning is set in B&R 9.5 for this library
- all tape Jobs now finish with warnings similar to this:
30.11.2016 08:31:06 :: Postponing cleaning for tape drive Drive 1 (Server: x.x.x.x, Library: HP MSL G3 Series 6.40 DP, Drive ID: Tape1) Details: Tape CLN001L1 is offline
- obviously the tape cleaning insists to use the old tape despite another one beeing online in the libary

And since there is no way to delete the old cleaning tape this estsboshes a perfect deadlock!

Any help available??
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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Veeam and the Tape Option - the stepchild of Veeam :-(
always too many Problems with this .

I make an Feature Request for 9.5 to add the Option that you tell Mediapool to use an special Tape Drive . Has not been observed
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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Hi guys,

Can you clarify, what options do you have when you right click the offline cleaning media? Please open a support case as well, so I could forward them to QA team. Thanks in advance.
I make an Feature Request for 9.5 to add the Option that you tell Mediapool to use an special Tape Drive . Has not been observed
We have this request noted. To better understand the request can you please clarify why library partitioning is not the option for your case?
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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When i right click on the cleaning Tape then it looks as followed :

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I cant wheter delete or something with this "old" Tape . I dont want the Tape anymore .

How can i remove this Tape . It confuses !!!!
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

Post by lyapkost » 1 person likes this post

Hi all. Thanks for pointing this out. We are about to fix it in upcoming updates.

As a workaround please execute the following Powershell command for every offline cleaning tape you need to remove:

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Remove-VBRTapeMedium -Medium <tapeName>
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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You are so Perfekt ;-) !!!!!!!

Thanks this will do the Trick for me .
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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Glad to hear PS script helped. As stated this issue is going to be fixed in the upcoming Update 1. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

Post by dweide » 1 person likes this post

Thanks for the PS script, worked for me too.

An now the tape jobs do autocleaning as expected.
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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We also got this after the upgrade to 9.5. We tried running the ps-script but got an error saying that the medium is not offline.

Any advice?
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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sbjelkfelt,
the medium is not offline.
Please check the state of cleaning media in the UI under Unrecognized media pool.
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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dweide wrote:
- all tape Jobs now finish with warnings similar to this:
30.11.2016 08:31:06 :: Postponing cleaning for tape drive Drive 1 (Server: x.x.x.x, Library: HP MSL G3 Series 6.40 DP, Drive ID: Tape1) Details: Tape CLN001L1 is offline
Any help available??
Have you be able to figure out solution for this? i also been getting this after upgrading to 9.5.
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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As Konstantin's mentioned above, the current solution is to run the provided script in order to remove old cleaning tape from catalogue. Thanks.
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Re: Old Cleaning Tape under "unrecognized" Tapes B&R 9.5

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Have you be able to figure out solution for this? i also been getting this after upgrading to 9.5.
Yes, that Problem stopped after removing the old tape using the Powershell command.
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