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Veeam cleaning tape is NOT unrecognized

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Hello!

I am deploying a new tape library with Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5.4.2866. The tape library is HP 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR 5.20 with 7 tape and 1 cleaning tape. The cleaning tape should be unrecognized, but the cleaning tape is in the media pool which I created. When I run a file to tape job, the cleaning tape won't do clean before the file to tape job. How can I mark the cleaning tape to the "cleaning tape"? Or how can I put this tape to unrecognized media pool?

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Re: Veeam cleaning tape is NOT unrecognized

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Hi adam,

please make sure Automatic Drive Cleaning is enabled under Drive options in Veeam console.
Cleaning tape should reside under Unrecognized pool anyway, so if Catalog\Inventory led it over to some other pool, I would double check with support, cos it's an abnormal behavior.

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Re: Veeam cleaning tape is NOT unrecognized

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Hi Egor!

This is my first configuration with tape library. When I connected to the Veeam server the tape library device and powered on it, the all tape was in the unrecognized media pool. But after it, I have created the new production media pool, and 1 accidentally selected the all disk, include the cleaning tape. I can move the cleaning tape from the production media pool, to the default pool which name is Free.

But there is an interesting thing for me. When I perform an action on this cleaning tape, like inventorying action, I got the following error message:

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2019. 12. 02. 11:36:03 Error    Failed to inventory tape in Drive 1 (Server: Server, Library: HP 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR 5.20, Drive ID: Tape0) Error: Unrecognized media
According to the error message, the cleaning tape is unrecognized.
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Re: Veeam cleaning tape is NOT unrecognized

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I solved it. I clicked with right click on the tape library name and select rescan option. After it, the cleaning tape move to unrecognized media pool automatically. Thanks.
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Re: Veeam cleaning tape is NOT unrecognized

Post by Egor Yakovlev » 1 person likes this post

Glad it worked.
Cheers!
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