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Some tape drives cannot work out for themselves what tape is in the library or slot when inserted, so you have to tell it what is there by running an inventory. If, like me, you are sometimes too busy to remember to run this inventory, you will know your back up can fail as it is asking for media. Particularly bad when running a full backup over a weekend. Scheduling an inventory so your tape drive knows what it contains is something to do so that you do not forget to run the inventory.

In Backup exec, you can do this very easily by right clicking inventory, in instead of runnign it straight away – choose the Schedule option. Then set it to run half an hour or so before your backup is due to run. That way all the tapes are in place and you can rest assured it will run ok.

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