Chapter 9 - Working with Tape Libraries and Media
Tape Library and Tape Drive Options
5.
If desired, edit the number of drives you want to reserve for write operations in the
Minimum Write Reserved Drives
. Alternatively, click the up and down arrows in the entry
field.
Note:
Drives reserved for a write operations are occasionally used for background
operations or tape inspection, but are never used for read operations.
6.
Select or clear
Automatic Tape Compaction
. When selected, the system automatically
reclaims unused tape space caused by deleted objects that still reside on a tape.
Note:
In addition to selecting Automatic Tape Compaction, IOM must be enabled for the
automatic tape compaction process to run. See
Configure the Spectra S3 Service on
for information on configuring IOM.
7.
Click
Save
.
Reserve or Make Available a Specified Tape Drive
If desired, you can reserve a specified tape drive in an exiting library partition to dedicate
the drive to either read or write operations, or to make the drive available for both types of
operations. You can also chose to reserve a drive for operations at or above a configured
priority.
IMPORTANT
Do not change the Minimum Task Priority when there are active jobs in
progress. If you set the priority higher than the priority of active jobs to tape,
those jobs do not complete.
1.
From the menu bar, select
Configuration > Advanced Bucket Management > Storage &
Policy Management
to display the Advanced Bucket Management screen (see
).
2.
Select the tape partition that contains the drive you want to online in the Tape Partitions
pane, and select
Action > Show Details
. The Tape Partition details screen displays.
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