HP B6960-90078 manual Modifying Media Descriptions, What Is a Description? Media Label

What Is a Description?

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Media Label

Managing Media

Modifying Media Descriptions

Modifying Media Descriptions

The media description helps you identify media. You can define a media description when you format new media. The initial description is written on the media and to the IDB.

If media were auto-formatted during backup, you may want to change the automatically-created description to something better suited to your needs. The revised description information will only be written to the IDB.

When you modify a media description, Data Protector modifies the description in the IDB and not on the medium itself.

Therefore, if you export and import media that have note been updated, the description in the IDB is replaced with the description from the media.

The media label is composed of the user-defined description and the barcode of the medium (if the medium has a barcode and the Barcode Reader Support option is enabled). For example, [CW8279]Default DLT_1 is the media label with the Default DLT_1 description and the CW8279 barcode. If the media description is changed, the descriptive part of the media label is changed too, but the barcode part remains the same.

How to Modify a Modify a media description in the General property page for the medium. Media Description For detailed steps, refer to the online Help index keyword “modifying,

media descriptions”.

Using Cartridge With Cartridge Memory enabled LTO drive(s) used with Cartridge

MemoryMemory enabled media, you can also update the medium description on the medium Cartridge Memory. This way, the description is not lost when you export or import the medium (it will be retrieved from the Cartridge Memory).

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