Remove rotated drive GUID from Veeam

[Moopere]

Hello Folks,

Bumped into an interesting issue over the weekend. A spare drive that used to be part of a still live rotated drive job got recycled by putting it into service with a new rotated drive job.

The problem that arose is that Veeam recognised the drive by its GUID and started using it for the wrong job. How does one remove a rotated drive from the pool of remembered rotated drives of a job?

[Mildur]

Hi Moopere

The drive ids are assigned to a backup repository with the option „rotated drive“ enabled. Only one repository backed by rotated hard drives is possible on a single managed server.
Every job targeted to that repository will use this rotated drives. You cannot assign a single job to a dedicated rotated drive.

Could you please share how you achieved „assigning a job to a rotated drive“? Do you attach the usb drives to different managed servers? This can help me to guide you in the right direction.

Thanks
Fabian

[Moopere]

@Fabian, thanks for responding.

I use USBDLM (https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html) as suggested a few years ago by a forum member to query connected USB drives and assign drive letters to them. Its been working fine for a long time - but I made an error in reassigning this particular drive from one rotating repo to another which is now confusing the system. The GUID's must be stored somewhere in Veeam ... perhaps not user accessible?

What I might have to do is investigate reassigning a GUID to the drive itself - I think this is possible.