We are on the same page, but in its different parts, if I may say so... First of all, you will need a tape available for Veeam to write backups to. Once this backup is successful, the tape gets ejected (if the corresponding option is enabled in the backup job config) and here VTL tape creation kick...

The Veeam feature I outlined does work for numerous customers that have it configured in their environments, and I do not have any grounds for suspecting this functionality to be faulty (unless this is specific to your particular environment). Have you tried configuring this before stating that &qu...

This does not work for me. I don't know if I am missing something. Here is my output: The issue is that you just take some small part of a PowerShell script and want it to work as if it were a separate script. It does not work like that. The suggested changes I posted needed to be implemented into ...

If you are sure you've got an offline tape in the system (e.g. you see it via StarWind Management Console) try checking for those using something like: foreach($tape in $device.Tapes) { if($tape.SlotType -eq "unknown"){ write-host "Tape:" $tape } } This will give you the list of...

Check this option on the example of Veeam B&R: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/starwind-virtual-tape-library-deploy-using-local-storage#b7a4c5147402c4075252f727f0beb4e418c70ca9 You need to the screenshot at step 9 of the Veeam block. Veeam has got that setting, which seems to ...

If you need to get the list of tapes in the offline shelf, you can check for the following: $tape.SlotType -eq "unknown" It will give you the list of tapes there. To insert any such tape, you would run a script based on the InsertVirtualTape.ps1 script that shows how to load a virtual tap...

Is there a setting in powershell for the option "Create new empty tapes automatically when existing tape removed from VTL for replication"?

I am running the free version of VTL and using powershell for management, but I cannot find any documentation or anything on how to load a tape from the offline shelf to a slot. When I do a listing of slots with the provided script, the offline shelf doesn't show up. I also have a tape in the offlin...