NOTE: Before you can e-mail a report, you must make the management server aware of an e-mail server. See ”Setting Up E-mail Notification” on page 154.

6.To learn more about scheduling the e-mailing of reports, see ”Adding an E-mail Schedule for a Report” on page 436.

Determining if You Have Enough Media to Run a Backup

If you are performing many and/or large backups, you probably want to make sure you have enough media to run a backup. Backup Manager provides several methods of determining if you have enough media.

•Media tab - Provides information about the discovered media including its usage count.

•Media Pool tab - Provides information about media in the pools, such as whether it is available, allocated, frozen or suspended.

•Media Summary reports - Provides information about all discovered media over a time period.

The following steps explain how to use these methods:

1.Access Backup Manager as described in ”Accessing Backup Manager” on page 351.

2.Select a master backup server in the topology.

3.If necessary, expand the lower pane so you can view the Media and Media Pool tabs.

4.Click the Media tab in the lower pane.

Backup Manager displays following information about the discovered media. To learn more about the displayed media, select its row. Additional information is displayed in the right pane.

5.If you want to learn more about the media pool that contains the media, click the Media Pool tab. The following is displayed:

•Media Pool - The name of the media pool.

•Master Server - The name of the master server to which the media pool belongs.

•Media Server - The name of the media server to which the media pool belongs.

•Library - The name of the library to which the media pool belongs.

•Available - The media is available for backup.

•Allocated - The media is currently in use, either actively being used or it has a valid backup on it.

•Frozen - The media will never become available again, but it is still available for restores.

•Suspended - The media will not be used again until all backups written to it expire. It is still available for installations.

6.To view media summary information in a report, do the following:

a. Access Reporting as described in ”Accessing Reporting” on page 432.

b. Expand the Report tree as follows Reporting > Backup Manager > Media Summary.

c.Click one of the media summary reports.

Backup Manager displays the total media with the following designation:

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