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rderham
Level 2
14 years ago

How do I adentify a media set?

Hi, please could someone tell me how to identify the label of media in the tape drive. The media has been labeled (I presume by Veritas default) e.g. 4MM000001, 4MM000002 etc  (I can tell this by look...
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  • RahulG's avatar
    RahulG
    14 years ago
    When you run a Inventory on the tape it recognize the tape you have in the Drive .
    The Media labelling option is set under tools --options and --media mangment
    The information of the data stored on the tape is saved in the catalogs folder in the program files/Symantec /backup exec directory .
    And if you are tryign to perform a restore form another backup exec server you need to run catalog on the tape so it generates the catalog on the other media server and creates the restore ...
rderham's avatar
rderham
Level 2
14 years ago
Thank you RahulG you pointed me in the right direction. The key was to inventory the tape.

For the benefit of others, who like me may not be familiar with how to run an inventory on the tape here  is a step by step guide. (I just have a single drive)

1) Select 'Devices' from tool bar
2) Select drive containing tape
3) Right click on the selected drive and from the menu select 'inventory' and then 'Run' which will then run as a job
4) When the job has completed select the 'Job Monitor' tab and double click on the completed job in the 'job history' box to view the results.
5) Expand the 'Utility Job Information' line and you will see the media label of the tape in the drive.

Happy Days!