HP B6960-90078 manual Importing Media, How to Import Media

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How to Import Media

Managing Media

Importing Media

Importing Media

Importing media adds media already used by Data Protector to a media pool, without losing the data on the media. Media used by Data Protector are media that were formatted by Data Protector, but exported from the Data Protector cell.

Importing a medium writes detailed information about backed up data on the medium to the IDB, so that you can later browse it for a restore.

Use media import when moving your media between Data Protector cells.

This operation is not available for media in free pools.

Attribute information such as object or media size will not be reconstructed during import. Thus the size of the imported objects will be shown as 0 KB.

Importing can take a considerable amount of time, depending on the device and media used.

Import all media used in one backup session at once. If you add only some media from the backup session, you will not be able to restore data spanning to other media.

To import media, browse for the specific device, media pool or library slot in the Devices & Media context, right-click it and click Import. For detailed steps, refer to the online Help index keyword “importing media”.

If you use library devices, you can select multiple slots using the Ctrl key and import several media in a single step. Refer to Figure 4-3. For detailed steps, refer to the online Help index keyword “importing media in library devices”.

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