Start Tapejob in V8

[Isaksson]

Case id: 00742860

Hello,
I have been using V7 almost 1 year and I have never had any issues with the "File to tape backup", I have upgraded to version 8 and now some strange things is happening, maybe someone more than me has noticed this strange behavior.

I am using a powershell script that is starting my File to tape job

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Start-VBRJob -Job "FileToTape_Monthly" -FullBackup -runasync | Out-File C:\VeeamScript\Log\SyntheticFullCheck.txt -append

This is a part of an script that I use to start the job when all my backup to disk is done with synthetic full.

Here is the error that I receive

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Failed to continue tape backup session on the next tape medium
Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 

And in V7 this tape job was on 3 tapes, now I notice that he needs 4 tapes even that tape 3 has 1 TB free data so something is going wrong here.

Version: 8.0.0.917
HP MSL G3 Series 6.10

I have now started the job manual from the gui (active full on the tape job) so i don't know yet how that turns out.
Should I start the job in another way with powershell in V8?

[veremin]

Let's wait and see whether or not the manual job execution via GUI will result in the similar issue; should help us to limit the scope of potential suspects (PS script or backup server). Thanks.

[Isaksson]

I have received answer from the support and this is an bug with Version 8 of veeam when you use multipath to the library.
An fix will be provided in the next Veeam patch.

[veremin]

So, the problem was related to the script itself, but rather to the way VB&R treated multipath to the given library? Thanks.

[Isaksson]

Thats correct (I guess you mean not related to the script) so i will continue to start my tape job in version 8 in the same way that i did in version 7, until someone tells me something else