PowerShell • Re: Filter double tapes after hardware fault of tape library

Hello,

thanks for your answer. it turned out it is less a powershell problem then a veeam tape management problem. May be someone can move this topic accordingly.

I wasn't there when it happened. I was told that they changed the mainboard of tape library and turned it on again. At this time veeam was showing 2 tape libraries. one was identified as the actual library and the other library with offline status was deleted. So on veeam side all fixed and veeam is working again with repaired library. It seems at the time we had 2 libraries in veeam the current inserted tapes are doubled.
I took a closer look and we have 66 Tapes in Mediapool "Unrecognized". This tapes have same names etc. as other tapes, but they are all offline and empty.

In powershell i found a way to exclude tapes from mediapool "Unrecocnized", so our output is fixed again. Now we are looking for a way to remove this doubled tapes from veeam without harming the actual tapes. Should i use " Remove from catalog" with these tapes?
Or is there an other recommend way?

Thank you,
Hans

Statistics: Posted by HansMeiser — Sep 03, 2025 10:14 am

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