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After making your selections, press the

Move

button to begin the operation. If any of the entries are not

valid according to the library configuration, an error message will be displayed. Also, if a move operation
error occurs, the message will be displayed.

Display Library Media Inventory

This option may be used to display the media inventory of the library using the Command to Inventory
configured in the

Configure Random Library

configuration screen. If no command to inventory the library

was defined in the library configuration, you will not be able to perform this operation.

To perform this operation, select

Utilities

!Perform Tape Library Operations!Display Library Media

Inventory

from the menu bar. When doing so, the following screen will display:

Select the server name (if Network Edition is used) and the library name by pressing the arrow buttons to
the right of each field, then press the

Inventory

button at the bottom of the screen. After doing so, a new

window will appear showing the command to execute and the output of that command, such as:

Any error messages that occur will also be displayed in that window. Simply press the

Close

button when

done.

Rebuild (unexpire) a Backup Label

You were sure you'd never need that backup again and didn't want that old backup label cluttering up the
system. After taking all the warnings into account you removed the backup label only to find that the backup last
night didn't run because you mistakenly scheduled it for noon instead of midnight. Now, the janitor spilled
cleaning fluid all over the disk drive and you have to restore your data to the spare disk you cleverly kept in the
file cabinet. Your only backup tape is the one you expired yesterday.

As stated in the many warnings you received when you pushed that "

expire

" button, it is not possible to restore

from a tape once the backup label has been removed. But there is hope. Actually, it’s really no problem at all.

Storix System Backup Administrator

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