Operation Manual

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7.4.4.4 Operations with tapes
Renaming
When a new tape is detected by the software, it is automatically assigned a name in the following
format: Tape XXX, where XXX is a unique number. Tapes are numbered sequentially. The renaming
operation allows you to manually change the name of one or several tapes.
To rename tapes:
1. In the Navigation tree, click Tape management. If connected to the management server, select
the storage node to which your tape device is attached.
2. Click the pool that contains the necessary tape(s), and then select the required tape(s).
3. Click Rename.
4. Type new name(s) of the selected tape(s).
5. Click OK to save the changes.
Changing pool
The operation allows you to move one or several tapes from one pool to another.
When you move a tape to the Free tapes pool, the software marks it as empty. If the tape contains
backups, they are marked with the icon. When the software starts overwriting the tape, the data
related to the backups will be removed from the database.
Notes about specific types of tape
 You cannot move write-protected and once-recorded WORM (Write-Once-Read-Many) tapes to
the Free tapes pool.
 Cleaning tapes are always displayed in the Unrecognized tapes pool; you cannot move them to
any other pool.
To move tapes to another pool:
1. In the Navigation tree, click Tape management. If connected to the management server, select
the storage node to which your tape device is attached.
2. Click the pool that contains the necessary tapes, and then select the required tapes.
3. Click Change pool.
4. [Optional] Click Create pool if you want to create another pool for the selected tapes. Perform
actions described in the "Creating a pool" (p. 205) section.
5. Select the pool to move the tapes to.
6. Click OK to save the changes.
Moving to another slot
Use this operation in the following situations:
 You need to take several tapes out of a tape device simultaneously.
 Your tape device does not have a mail slot and the tapes to be taken out are located in slots of
non-detachable magazine(s).
You need to move tapes to slots of one slot magazine and then take the magazine out manually.