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Tape got moved to Unrecognised, no options to fix?

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I just noticed that one of our tapes has appeared in the Unrecognized pool. If I right click on it, the only options that aren't greyed out are Eject and Properties. Anyone seen this before?

Tape has been used a couple of times, and has been restored from recently.

It's appearing in the list of available restore points if I start setting up a tape restore job. I'm thinking I won't try to fix this yet, for fear of losing access to the backup on it. Just wondering what might have caused it.
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Re: Tape got moved to Unrecognised, no options to fix?

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Hello Peter,

Tape is moved to unrecognized media pool if it has been removed from the VBR's catalog (the most common scenario - such tape was marked as free). Can you please check if inventory / catalog operations are available on the mentioned tape? Cheers!
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Re: Tape got moved to Unrecognised, no options to fix?

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I can do an inventory on the drive, but I can do that whether there's a tape in it or not. It still knows the name of the tape.

I can't catalog the tape. That's greyed out. I can only eject it.
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Re: Tape got moved to Unrecognised, no options to fix?

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Understood, thank you! What's the state of the tape? Any chance is marked as offline (maybe it was exported thus the operations are grayed out)?
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