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 displayed as deleted. As the software overwrites the backups, it will remove the data related to the backups from the database.

Notes about specific types of tape

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 New 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.