Media Manager
About managing storage media
Media Manager helps you manage your archive tapes and disks. It
displays information about the removable storage media and archive
disks in your Archiver system, and enables you to:
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Verify that a tape or disk is readable using the
Medium Verify
menu
item
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Copy all jobs on a given tape or disk to other media, using the
Medium Logical Copy
menu item, which runs the Archive Medium
Logical Copy process template
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Set a tape to read-only using the
Medium Complete
menu item
About Removable Storage media pools
All the tapes in the Removable Storage media pools appear in Media
Manager, not just the tapes that Archiver uses.
Note: Removable Storage is a tool in Microsoft Management Console, which is a
feature of the Windows operating system. For information about Removable
Storage, see the Windows online help.
Archiver supports the following tape formats: AIT (Advanced
Intelligent Tape) and LTO (Linear Tape-Open).
For each tape type, Removable Storage creates three default media
pools:
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Free media pools
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Import media pools
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Unrecognized media pools
Any other media pools that appear in Removable Storage are software
pools created for Media Manager or other software.
Use Archiver only with qualified devices. For information about
qualified devices, contact your sales representative.
About verifying a medium
Use the
Medium Verify
operation to verify that:
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A tape or disk is readable.
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A tape or disk has no errors on it.
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The format of a medium's contents is correct.
This operation can take several hours, depending on how much data is
on the medium. If there are errors on the medium, it will take longer.
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