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Community Edition: Replace tape drive

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Hello.

I've found the guide on how to replace a tape device on a media pool.
But when I get to the step where I would add the new tape drive there's a warning that Veeam B&R Enterprise edition is required.

Is there a way that supports replacing a standalone tape drive when using the Community Edition?
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Re: Community Edition: Replace tape drive

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Hi Patrick,

In Community Edition, you can have only one device in mediapool.
So what you can do here - remove the old device first and the add the new one.

Thanks!
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Re: Community Edition: Replace tape drive

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Great, thanks!

I didn't think to try it this way around.
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Re: Community Edition: Replace tape drive

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Patrick,

Let us know if you have any additional questions.
Also, asked Documentation team to update the docs to make Tape device replacement more clear for Community edition users.

Thanks!
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Re: Community Edition: Replace tape drive

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Hello, this is rather embarassing.

Since I've asked this question I upgraded my Veeam environment from Community Edition version 10 to 11 but just didn't get around to actually replacing my old tape drive.
Now that I gave it another go I ran into another obstacle: When I'm editing the Media Pool and go to "Tapes" -> "Managing Libraries..." the button "Add..." is greyed out (as expected). If I select the tape drive I want to replace the "Remove" button is enabled. But if I click on it I get prompted that I have to add a new tape device to assign tapes to first.

So is there a way out of this Catch-22 situation?
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Re: Community Edition: Replace tape drive

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Hi, sounds like this will require opening a support case and have them remove from the configuration manually...
Or you can just do a clean install of the product into a fresh database, and reconfigure everything - might be faster.
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Re: Community Edition: Replace tape drive

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Patrick,
When I'm editing the Media Pool and go to "Tapes" -> "Managing Libraries..." the button "Add..." is greyed out (as expected). If I select the tape drive I want to replace the "Remove" button is enabled. But if I click on it I get prompted that I have to add a new tape device to assign tapes to first.
Thanks for the feedback! We will check this behavior with QA team and make the required corrections - change of the drive should be somehow affected by the license.
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Re: Community Edition: Replace tape drive

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Patrick,

Thanks again for the feedback, we've noted a bug and plan to fix it in the upcoming update!
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