Overview: Media Configuration

The following steps are required regardless of whether you set up your tape library using Automatic Setup (Process A) or Manual Setup (Process B):

1. Before backups can be performed using the tape library, media pools (also called tape pools) for the tape library must be created. Use the Adding a Media Pool function in the management console. Media pools should be set up in a way that makes sense for your Enterprise. Follow the instructions in Adding a Media Pool.

2. Associate media volumes (tapes) with the media pools and label the media volumes. You usually want to add tape volumes in sets of consecutively named volsers. DPX provides several methods for assigning media volumes to media pools and labeling media volumes.

Follow the instructions in Adding a Media Volume or Writing a Label.