Ejecting Tapes from my tape library

[faisalmali]

Hello Veeam community,

Hopefully someone can help me I am unable to eject a tape when I go to the tape Infrastructure > Media pools > Offline Backups

I right click on a tape and the eject is grayed out.

I also wonnder after ejecting from the VBR how do I eject it from the tape library itself (HPE MSL3040 3330) will it unlock and I can pull it or do I have to login to my tape library and eject it there as well.

Thank you

[david.domask]

Hi Faisal,

Tape Ejecting moves a tape from drive to slot -- can I ask, is the tape already in slot or is it sitting in the drive?

If you want to be able to remove the drive from the tape library without opening the magazines, you would want to use Export Tape and move the tape to the I/E Slot (Mail slot). Please note that if Export is not possible or you receive a message about no I/E Slots detected, check the driver in use as generic drivers often don't return information about I/E Slots.

[faisalmali]

Hello David ,

My main goal here is that I have a tape job that runs every month we call it offline backup now after the month ends I must eject this tape entirely so its removed from the magazine.

To be stored in a safe for Storage.

Now I see that my tapes who have Location set to a slot I am un able to click eject but I have one tape with Location set to Drive this I can click on Eject.

So do I need to move each tape to Drive to eject? and if so how is that done

also once I click on eject how to take it out of the tape library removing it to from the magazine?

Finally once removed what are the steps if I want to reload the tape again into the library?

Thank you

[david.domask]

Hi Faisal,

I'd ask to check the two links I included above, as I think there is just a bit of terminology confusion here

Tape Eject: Moves tape from Drive to Slot, the tape remains in the Library.

Export Tape: Instruct the library to move the tapes to the I/E Slot (Mail slot), which allows you to remove/add tapes to the library without opening the magazine.

So the operation you need is Export Tape, not Eject.