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I have 2 weeks of inventoried tapes (Monday - Friday both weeks), and when say I take Monday's tape out and put Tuesdays tape in, it still says Mondays tape is loaded.  When it goes to run the incremental backup nightly it is saying tape backup not found because it still recognizes it from the night before and not the current days tape.  Is there a way to fix this issue instead of constantly having to manually choose to inventory tapes every day when I get in.

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Hello 

You can add a command to run inventory before starting a backup, see Pre and post commands.

1) Check if the Acronis command-line tool is installed. You can do this by entering "acrocmd" in the Windows command line. If you get the list of arguments in the output, the tool is installed. 
If the command is not recognized, please extract the AcronisCommandLineTool package from the Acronis Backup 12.5 installation file and install it. 

2) Execute the command: 

acrocmd list tape_libraries --output = raw 

Note the GUID of tape libraries or stand-alone tape drives to be inventoried  (e.g., 86BE165D-91A8-4E42-BC07-C4405A04E714) 

3) Create an "Inventory.bat" file with the following content:

acrocmd inventory tape --mode = full --libraries = GUID 

where GUID is the string from step 2 

For more information see https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisBackup_12.5_Command_Line_Reference/index.html#39875.html

Then add the batch file as a pre-command in the backup plan and test backup. Let us know the outcome.