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" section.
5. Select the pool to move the tapes to.
6. Click OK to save the changes.