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One of our HP MSL2024 units started acting up this past weekend going offline in Backup Exec. &nbsp;The messages that appear on the LCD panel of the unit indicate recovery mode with the sound of tapes moving around, or it sounds idle and the display says close mailslot pointing to the left magazine of the unit.<br />
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The mailslot slot feature is disabled, and when it lets me to pull out the right and left magazines all tapes and the magazines look normal.<br />
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If I attempt to run an inventory or job, it starts but then hangs with no progress being indicated by the BUexec jobs, but it appears that both drives are busy. &nbsp;It will stay like that until I either cancel it or the drives go offline in BUexec.<br />
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Any ideas what is going on and how to correct it?
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One of our HP MSL2024 units started acting up this past weekend going offline in Backup Exec.  The messages that appear on the LCD panel of the unit indicate recovery mode with the sound of tapes moving around, or it sounds idle and the display says close mailslot pointing to the left magazine of the unit.

The mailslot slot feature is disabled, and when it lets me to pull out the right and left magazines all tapes and the magazines look normal.

If I attempt to run an inventory or job, it starts but then hangs with no progress being indicated by the BUexec jobs, but it appears that both drives are busy.  It will stay like that until I either cancel it or the drives go offline in BUexec.

Any ideas what is going on and how to correct it?

HP MSL2024 Backup - Stuck in Recovery Mode - Close Mailslot

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.