Please insert overwritable media into the robotic library using the import command.

Please go to the media tab and see if there are tapes in "Scratch Media" media set. Run an inventory job on the robotic library to make sure the correct tapes are detected by Backup Exec.

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Have created partition in your robotic library ?? If so make sure the partition to which you have target your backup Job has overwritable media . Also before running the backup job run inventory and make sure the tape it he robotic library is overwritable ..

I'm having almost the same issue.  I have an autoloader with partitions defined (one for each day of the week) and all of my jobs run fine unless I put in new/blank media.  The new media shows up in the scratch set, but when a job runs, it says:

Please insert overwritable media into the robotic library using the import command.

I even turned off media management/overwrite protection in BE and am still having the issue.  

--Update - If I right click on the partition and actually import the media, the job will run.  But I don't recall ever having to do this before.  Any idea why this is happening this way?

If any one receive "Warning: Please insert over writable media into the robotic library using the import command."

Reason 1: If you are using "Append to media, overwrite if no appendable media is available" option and your backup service or any component fail while backup.

Solution: If you have important data on tape then you can move this data in another temp area and ten you have to Erase the tape or you can change the tape.


If you are frequently receive this error then you have to diagnose the backup exec server.

Hi. I`ve got the same problem at the moment.
I have got 2 tapes (with no data) in schratch media:
1) i erase media again
2)  i inventory one tapes
3) i catalog media one tape
4) I click right button on job - respond to alert - and I click OK - the allert message is the same.
Please insert overwritable media into the robotic library using the import command.

Please write in few steps what should I do. Thanks again.

I resolve this problem: I drag and drop media from scratch to retired media and put the media in to the set with backup.
Thanks for help.

We can find nothing on this problem (or perhaps there is a configuration issue). 

We use "Backup to Disk" folders for our backup.  There is plenty of space for the folders.

But last night when doing a backup of the Exchange Storage using the "GRT" method, we got this message "Please insert overwritable media into the robotic library using the import command...etc.".

This message must have repeated all last night since there was over 1,500 of these in the log.  Looking at the machine, there was space on the drive, there were a number of the "BD2D" files that were marked as "Scratch". 

In short there was nothing we could figure to do since there is NO "robotic" library and no media that could be "imported" that we can tell.

We cancelled the job and restarted it.  However, it again started up with the "Please insert overwritable media into the robotic library.."

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

Did you have some free tapes in Scratch Media ?