Manually mapping of tape to tape library on Veeam B&R 8

[zipman]

Hi to everybody,
today I upgraded the server of a client of mine from B&R 7 to B&R8. Everything went smooth, except for the tape drive that is recognized as standalone and not part of the tape library (a partitioned IBM TL3573 with ULT4 drive).
I had the same problem even with version 7, but I resolved creating the registry key TapeDevices REG_MULTI_SZ "changer0=tape0" as stated in the KB1842.
Unfortunaly the same workaround doesn't work on Veeam B&R8 anymore (I suppose because of the separation of the tape services) and I cannot find an updated KB article.
Can someone help me with this issue, please?

Thanks
Flavio

[Dima P.]

Hello Flavio,
Thank you for posting this, the article needs to be corrected as now it contains the information related to v7 version.

Meanwhile try this one:

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Path: 	
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication 
Key Type: 
REG_MULTI_SZ 
Name: 
TapeDevices
Value: 
ProxyName
Changer0 = Tape0:DriveNumInChanger, Tape1:DriveNumInChanger

[zipman]

Thanks Dmitry
As suggested I added the REG_MULTI_SZ registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\TapeDevices
with value:
Local Tape Server
changer0=tape0:0

and everything worked as expected.
Thanks again
Flavio