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Verifying media, Scanning media – HP B6960-90078 User Manual

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ADIC/GRAU DAS and STK ACS Libraries

The STK ACS Library Device

Chapter 14

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11. Optionally, use the

Medium Capacity

button to define whether Data

Protector will

Determine

the storage size of the medium, or whether

you want to

Specify

the storage size of the medium. You can leave

the default, which is

Determine

.

12. Optionally, using the

Force Initialization

button will

automatically initialize blank media or media in other formats
recognized by Data Protector (tar, cpio, OmniBackI, and so on). You
can leave the default value. Data Protector media containing
protected data will not be re-initialized even if this option is set. The

Eject

option, if set, will eject a medium from the drive after the

initialization completes.

Follow online Help for information on specific items in the wizard.

13. Click

Finish

to confirm and exit this wizard.

Verifying Media

Use this function to verify media in a media pool. By reading all media
blocks and parsing all the headers, then parsing all Media Agent blocks
and checking records in each block, Data Protector determines whether
the data on the media is valid. If the

CRC

option was set during backup,

Data Protector recalculates the CRC and compares the values.

You can only verify resident Data Protector media.

1. In the

HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Manager

, switch to

the

Devices & Media

context.

2. In the Scoping Pane, click

Devices

. The list of configured devices will

display in the Results Area.

3. In the list of configured devices click the name of the library, then

expand it to display the

Drives

and

Slots

items.

4. Click

Slots

to display the list of slots in the Results Area.

5. Select a range of media to verify.

6. Right-click your selected media, and then click

Verify

.

See online Help for further information.

Scanning Media

Use this function to examine the format of selected media. Also see
“Scanning Media in a Device” on page 129 for more information.