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by gcheels

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I have struggled with Removable Storage and how to get the tapes to work with Backup. Can anyone tell me (with no great detail) what the steps are to ready 6 tapes to be used with a scheduled backup that will occur every night. I will use a different tape each night. What do I need to do in the Removable Storage MMC and what do I have to do in Backup to make it work. I keep getting a message stating "the operation was not performed because no unused media was available". I've tried this with tapes in different media pools, but I don't understand where I'm going wrong. Thanks.

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by vinnyd

What you do is:

Under Computer Management
Storage
Removeable Media
Physical Locatios
open the tape device
Click the media icon
In the right pane right click and click Prepare
repeat for each days tape.

Now you need to do a manual backupon each tape
After completing the backups on each tape, the tape will now have a Media Label.

You must schedule a backup for each day separately and tell the backup which tape media label to use.

thats what I had to do.

For a complete list of instructions lookup MS tech article number Q239892

How to Schedule Unattended Backups Using a Stand-Alone Tape Library.

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