U need to make sure you run inventory on the tape before you run the job . If you have inserting a second tape on which you have not ran any inventory job the backup would not continue .

When you change tapes, are you running export/import jobs?  or just brute force changing the tapes?  If you are changing tapes without making BE aware of the change, it won't know to use the changed tape.  I suggest trying an import job, which also allows you to check a box to automatically inventory the tape after importing.

Forgive a stupid question, but you do respond "OK" to the alert to "Insert an Overwriteable Tape", correct?

Okay, I'll take the last one first, Ken:  Yes I do respond "yes" to the alert and the backup job sits there.  Ken is also correct that an inventory, scan, import/export cannot be performed while a backup job is suspended.  All jobs will wait in queue until that backup is completed.

When the alert for another tape comes up, it suspends the backup and releases my autoloader so that I can eject/import tapes into it, but when I respond to teh alert, the alert comes right back up withn a couple of seconds and asks for new tapes again.  It will not continue regardless of what I do.  Recently I tried to restart the services, only resulted in cancelling the job.

Any other ideas?

Hmmm

have you partitioned your loader and pointed your jobs at a specific partition, or are they just pointed to the loader in general or to "All Pools"

hi how about you go to your device tab and right click on the quantum and do a scan
you are using barcode for your tapes rite? :D

Negative.  Do not use barcode, never saw the real purpose of it.  Tried doing a scan from the device, still a no-go.  But a good suggestion!

hmm, can describe normally how your backup detect the tape has been change as in you do an inventory after each change of tapes?
i do a scan of the tape as mine is using barcode scanning
 

Sorry, Ken...I missed one of your questions...I have the autoloader partitioned and the jobs are set to point at a specific partition.

Whitknight:

When I import tapes, I always inventory the tapes.

Ken:

No the partitions were multi-slotted.  I had them set up as the first two slots were used for Daily's and the next 5 were for full backups then the last always holds the cleaning tape.

Now I have it partitioned as the first 7 are for fulls and the last one is a cleaning tape.  But the backup job would use them without incident.

--Answer your second post...
Ken:  Regardless of the typw os tape used, the job will not continue.  I have decided to try to go another route which is to keep the jobs as small as possible.

Thanks for trying.